[kde-freebsd] KMail crashes

[David Southwell]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 07:03:58 Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Friday, 27. April 2007, David Southwell wrote:
> > I am sorry to say that it does not entirely work. The crashes are much
> > more infrequent -- gone for over 24 hours without a crash of kmail - that
> > compares with crashes every 3 or 4 hours previously. Also it did not
> > totally freeze the whole screen or require a ctrl>alt>backspace to get
> > out of the problem but I did have to log out of the kde session.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to help trace the cause.
>
> Recompile the kdepim3 port like this:
>
> cd /usr/ports/deskutils/kdepim3
> make -DWANT_KDE_DEBUG
> make deinstall install
>
> Make sure your terminal history buffer is sufficiently big. If you're using
> konsole, I recommend you select "Clear History" from the Edit menu,
> then "History..." from the Settings menu and click "Set Unlimited" and Ok
> at this point. Then start kmail (or kontact) in the debugger:
>
> gdb kmail
>
> Eventually the gdb prompt will appear. Type the following then:
> set args --nofork
>
> Then type:
> run
>
> Now kmail should start as usual. Use it until a crash/hang of kmail occurs.
> Do not log out of KDE and get the shell window in which you started the
> debugger with kmail running in it and check if the gdb prompt is visible -
> if it isn't, hit CTRL-C, which should bring it up. Once you get the prompt,
> type:
>
> info threads
>
> You will get some output like this:
>
>   6 Thread 5 (sleeping)  0x29f7c233 in foobar () from /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
>   5 Thread 4 (sleeping)  0x29f7c233 in foobar () from /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
>   4 Thread 3 (sleeping)  0x29f7c233 in foobar () from /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
>   3 Thread 2 (sleeping)  0x29f7c233 in foobar () from /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
>   2 Thread 1 (sleeping)  0x29f7c233 in foobar () from /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1
>
> Now select a thread:
>
> thread 6
>
> And get a stack trace of it:
>
> bt
>
> Do this for each thread in the list. Then save the complete terminal buffer
> (in Konsole, use "Save History As" in the Edit menu) to a file and send the
> output here (or open a bug report on bugs.kde.org with that file attached
> and report the number it gets assigned here on the list).
>
>
> Good luck,
Thank you Michael

Well after a major interuption in my life dealing with some health issues I 
got round to following your suggestions. The result is a PR 114066 and a new 
thread entiled ports/114066: Kmail crashes.

Thank you Michael for your ever helpful guidance

david