[Bug 292326] New: local maildir Akonadi resource freezes due to gamin/gam_server interference

[Falk Krönert]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292326

           Summary: local maildir Akonadi resource freezes due to
                    gamin/gam_server interference
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: 4.7
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Maildir Resource
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: FalkKroenert at gmx.net


Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.4) 
OS:                Linux

After running a KDE session for a long time (>48h), the gam_server/gamin file
alteration monitor daemon acts up when accessing a local maildir akonadi
resource, either through KMail/Kontact or the akonadiconsole browser.
A restart of akonadi via akonadictl restart does not help, the problem
persists. Logging out of KDE is the only way to solve it.
It can easily be fixed, however, by killing the gam_server process (which will
immediately be restarted automatically). 15 is ok, the daemon itself is not
locked up.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have KMail/Kontact running for a day or two with a local maildir akonadi
resource configured.
2. At some point all access to the mails in the maildir folders will stall,
while imap and/or pop will continue to work as usual.

Actual Results:  
Access to mails in maildir resources ceases, along with filters moving or
copying mails to them.

Expected Results:  
Maildir should continue working.

This might be an openSuse-specific issue, but I'm not sure. Killing the daemon
cleanly resolves it, however, so for the moment I settled for a small script in
.kde/Autostart that kills it every hour.

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