baoo_file_extractor crashes - WAS - Re: PIM is not good. Would adding an extra RC help?

[Vishesh Handa]

On Sunday, April 06, 2014 07:12:48 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Diumenge, 6 d'abril de 2014, a les 18:42:38, Andreas K. Huettel va
> 
> escriure:
> > Am Samstag, 5. April 2014, 16:40:24 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > > ** Please CC me and r-t list, i'm not subscribed to pim list. **
> > > 
> > > Hello guys, as I hope you all know this Wednesday we are supposed to tag
> > > the final release for 4.13.
> > > 
> > > I am sending this email to ask for opinions on the value of adding an
> > > extra
> > > RC and delaying the 4.13.0 release for at least a week.
> > > 
> > > I'm going to explain why I'd like this to happen.
> > > 
> > > Since the update to 4.13 Beta I've been having lots of CPU and I/O
> > > problems
> > > in pim related stuff, most notably akonadi_baloo_indexer,
> > > akonadi_maildir_resource & friends.
> > 
> > Here's another biggish problem:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/baloo/+bug/1301742
> > baloo_file_extractor crashed with SIGSEGV in size()
> 
> That's not pim related, let's drop kdepim mailing list from further emails
> in this sub-thread.
> 
> > The bug report is on Ubuntu, but using Gentoo I have about 4000
> > baloo_file_extractor corefiles too, checking two at random displayed the
> > same backtrace.
> 
> Can you check if we have any bug on bugs.kde.org about it?
> 
> Vishesh do you know about this bug? Can you evaluate how bad it is for the
> user if baloo_file_extractor crashes?
> 

I've gotten many crash reports about the extractor since the RC - I've taken 
many steps to simplify the code and even added extra unit tests. This crash 
should have gotten fixed, but I cannot say for sure. The only way to know if 
for users to try it out and see.

The extractor crashing is not *that* bad. It's purposely run in a separate 
process because it may crash (underlying library problems, buggy/corrupt file 
system, etc). Also there is code to figure out why it is crashing and blacklist 
that file.


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Vishesh Handa