dead letters crash

[Allen Winter]

Laurent was able to reproduce and was taking a look.
KMail works, but  Kontact crashes .

Bogus in the sense that it was mis-leading me.
yes, I meant kmail_part.rc and it does exist 

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 1:04:04 PM EDT Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 1:57:04 PM CEST Allen Winter wrote:
> > The "** Dead letters dumped" message is bogus in this case.
> > That message is always printed when kmail kills itself.
> 
> It's printed whenever KCrash is invoked (SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, ...) to preserve 
> any unsaved emails. Even if KMail aborts (e.g. qFatal from Qt, Frameworks, 
> Akonadi, KMail itself ...) we still want to preserve unsaved emails, so no, 
> it's not bogus :-)
> 
> > 
> > I have a backtrace that seems to indicate my kmail.rc file isn't being
> > found. I'll keep looking.
> 
> I don't have any kmail.rc file myself in any of my environments.
> 
> The only file I have is $XDG_DATA_DIRS/kxmlgui5/kmail2/kmail_part.rc - is your 
> XDG_DATA_DIRS correct?
> 
> Can you share the backtrace and kmail terminal output?
> 
> Dan
> 
> > 
> > oh, and I changed the wiki instructions to build with debugfull.
> > 
> > On Sunday, May 14, 2017 6:09:05 PM EDT Allen Winter wrote:
> > > I've been using hand-built kde-pim master inside my KDE 16.08 desktop
> > > worked fine for a couple days.
> > > 
> > > But today I get this crash.  Looks familiar but I can't recall the trick
> > > to making it run again. any remember?  was it an autosave file I need to
> > > remove?
> > > the core file has no symbols for some reason.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"
> > > "/home/allen/.local-dev/share/akonadi/instance/devel/akonadiserver-cmd.so
> > > cket" org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid
> > > name"
> > > "/home/allen/.local-dev/share/akonadi/instance/devel/akonadiserver-cmd.so
> > > cket" org.kde.pim.webengineviewer:  It's not necessary to check database
> > > now *** KMail got signal 11 (Exiting)
> > > *** Dead letters dumped.
> > > KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
> > > KCrash: Application Name = kontact path = /home/data/kde/inst/5/bin pid =
> > > 19140 KCrash: Arguments: /home/data/kde/inst/5/bin/kontact
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
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