[Kde-pim] akonadi resource processes crashing (in masses)

[Andreas Hartmetz]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 09:35:12 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:20:49 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > Today I noticed about 40 core files of dead akonadi resource processes in
> > my core files dir, after cleaning that dir yesterday (it contained about
> > 70 resource process core files at the time). They crash in KPixmapCache
> > which, frankly, needs to be killed with fire better sooner than later.
> > The current implementation that is.
> > Anyway, akonadi processes crash because of it. I hope you can do
> > something about it...
> 
> Nope, I can't do anything about it, doesn't happen here. I can not
> reproduce. I see others seem to have a problem with this quite often,
> maybe you can have a look at this?
> It is bug 222155.
> 
Since the bug is actually in KPixmapCache and that one is pretty much one big 
known bug, I'm currently happy that resources don't crash for whatever reason. 
Possibly due to this kdepimlibs patch I'm using, which should not be committed 
AFAIU:

Index: akonadi/resourcebase.h
===================================================================
--- akonadi/resourcebase.h      (revision 1100834)
+++ akonadi/resourcebase.h      (working copy)
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
     static int init( int argc, char **argv )
     {
       const QString id = parseArguments( argc, argv );
-      KApplication app;
+      KApplication app( /* GUIEnabled = */ false );
       T* r = new T( id );
 
       // check if T also inherits AgentBase::Observer and
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