what do i do with seemingly random crashes?

[Ingo Klöcker]

gabriel wrote:
> i was using kmail today when it just plain crashed -- seemingly
> without
> reason.  i have no idea how to duplicate this, but it did spit out a
> bunch of
> crash info supplied by the kde crash handler.  ...is this stuff of any
> use to
> anyone?

Only if you compiled KDE yourself with full debugging information. If 
the backtrace contains a lot of "(no debugging symbols found)..." and 
you don't know how you provoked the crash then don't bother to submit a 
bug report since we won't be able to fix a bug with such little 
information.

Currently there seems to be a problem in khtml which is used by KMail to 
render HTML messages. If the backtrace you got contains something like 
this
#6 0x40199392 in khtml::Loader::servePendingRequests () 
 from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4 
then you are just another victim of the same bug. Disabling HTML 
rendering should prevent this problem.

Regards,
Ingo

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