KMail problem

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Hey everyone,

I'm happy to report that with my recent upgrade to Kmail 5.10.1 the problem 
has vanished. Yay! :-P

Cheers,
DMK

On Monday, January 7, 2019 4:24:58 P.M. EST Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've checked bugs.kde.org. I can't find anything quite like this. Before I
> submit a bug report I thought I'd check folks' opinions here.
> 
> I've narrowed down what happens: kmail only crashes when I attempt to open
> an email in a new window (which is my standard way of doing things.)
> 
> I can reply to an email. I can receive emails no problem. I can see any
> email under kmail's preview pane functionality (which I strongly dislike
> and normally keep turned off.) I'm writing this on one of my affected boxes
> using kmail.
> 
> I recompiled just about everything in my ports tree and used language
> similar to what Tobias put below to add debugging to kmail, kdepim, kf5 
> and qt5 ports.
> 
> I did this twice, on two different systems, and ran kmail under gdb. I got
> two very different crash reports (well, they agree on where the break
> happens, but the details differ wildly.)
> 
> Any suggestions on how I should proceed would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> DMK
> 
> On Monday, December 17, 2018 1:53:43 A.M. EST Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> > Hi Dwayne
> > 
> > There was a similar report in #kde-devel in IRC recently. There is
> > probably
> > an open PR upstream for this.
> > 
> > 
> > You can add somethin like this for Qt5
> > 
> > 
> > # Build Qt with debug flags
> > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/qt5-*} && ! ${.CURDIR:M*www/qt5-webkit*} && !
> > ${.CURDIR:M*www/qt5-webengine*}
> > WITH_DEBUG=     yes
> > .endif
> > And analogously for KF5. You neee to exclude the two www as your machine
> > wont survive the build otherwise =)
> > 
> > There are also environment variables you can set to make akonadi more
> > verbose.
> > 
> > Mfg Tobias
> > 
> > Am Mo., 17. Dez. 2018, 05:02 hat Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk at ncf.ca> 
geschrieben:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > This weekend I upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, wiped out all my ports,
> > > upgraded my poudriere jail and then rebuilt everything. Most things are
> > > ok.
> > > However, I have a major problem with KMail 5.10.0 now. Every time I try
> > > to
> > > open one of my imap emails it segfaults and dies.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately Dr. Konqui had no useful information.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else see this? And can someone tweak my memory as to how to build
> > > with useful crash dumps? is it WITH_DEBUG=YES in make.conf or something
> > > like that?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > DMK