Bug#360291: Freezes on startup after indexing maildir, before displaying main window - narrowed down to kmailrc
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.1-1
Severity: important
KMail crashed when clearing several thousand messages from the local Trash
maildir folder. I haven't able to start KMail since the crash, since it
freezes and eats 100% CPU on startup. I narrowed down this in time: KMail
indexes maildir folders (index files are regenerated if deleted), then eats
100% CPU before displaying it's main window. No disk activity during the
freeze. The kmail process can be killed with normal SIGTERM: killall kmail
I narrowed down this further. I've backed up my maildir folder and ~/.kde,
then deleted the contents of my mailbox. KMail regenerated the default maildir
structure, then freezed up. Then the maildir is restored and the
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail folder is deleted. KMail freezes again regardless of
the deleted configuration files. After deleting ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
it did not freeze again, just started to reconfigure itself and asked the
usual user-specific post-installation questions.
I guess kmail is freezing due to an unusal value/syntax in it's kmailrc.
I'm going to attach my kmailrc to this bug as additional information after
submiting this report.
Thanks for your help, Viktor
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-sirius-20051219-0354
Locale: LANG=hu_HU, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.4.3-3 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.1-4 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.1-1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-5 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-2 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.1-1 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.1-1 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.1-1 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.1-1 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.1-1 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.1-1 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.1-1 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.4.3-3 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.1-1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii procmail 3.22-15 Versatile e-mail processor
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