[kdepim-users] KMail locks up

Ferdinand Gassauer gassauer at kde.org
Sat Jun 12 06:45:12 BST 2010


> On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 07 June 2010 18:31:15 John Aldrich wrote:
> > > On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > I think that if anything was left over, still running, KMail
> > > > wouldn't start a new session - or at least would warn you of the
> > > > possibility. How recent is your version?  This could be very
> > > > important.  Quite long freezes were common a while back, but were
> > > > cured some time ago - I'm not sure whether that was in late 4.3 or
> > > > early 4.4 days.
> > > 
> > > I'm still running F11, KMail 1.13.3 and KDE 4.4.3. As I said, I can
> > > kill everything and restart, and it works fine from then on, but it's
> > > freezing up after I shut down my remote session, drive home (~60
> > > minutes) and start up KMail again.
> > 
> > Is 4.4.3 the latest you can get?  I'd certainly recommend updating if
> > you can. I think you'll find that the problem disappears if you do.
> > 
> Ok. I upgraded to Fedora 13, which is the "bleeding edge" version of Linux. 
> i'm still stuck on 4.4.3 and still having the lock-up problems. :-(
> 
> This time I was typing a message and KMail just totall froze on me. a "ps -
> aux | grep mail" showed KMail was in the process of trying to POP email. Is 
> this what is causing problems? The fact that I'm trying to POP email while 
> typing a message? Say it ain't so! Just doesn't make any sense that a 
> modern email client can't receive email while typing a message? FWIW, I've 
> got plenty of resources left, memory-wise...
> [john at slave1 ~]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       3929076    3229360     699716          0     246976    1976208
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1006176    2922900
> Swap:      2059112       5360    2053752
> 
> Any idea on how to fix it?
> 
> thanks!
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I am experiencing freezing/hanging processes of KMail / IMAP if the internet 
connection  breaks during operation - then I have to kill some imap processes 
manually (4.4.3) 
-- 
cu
ferdinand
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