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Re: [kde 3.4.1] kmail composer crash when inserting file



On June 27, 2005 06:47 pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Monday 27 June 2005 1:08 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On June 27, 2005 03:25 pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 June 2005 11:05 am, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > > > On June 27, 2005 12:49 pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday 25 June 2005 2:11 am, Jean-Damien Durand wrote:
> > > > > > Cannot reproduce it on i386. I tried with a library of 45M
> > > > > > and a zero-length file. Perhaps listing all your installed
> > > > > > kde packages might help the developers.
> > > >
> > > > You should upgrade these packages to the version 3.4.1-1 and
> > > > restart KDE.
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > I upgraded everything I could think of (current list below)
> > > and restarted KDE, but the composer still crashes when
> > > I insert a file.
> > >
> > >  snip ...
> >
> > Well then I would try moving your .kde directory to a backup and
> > logout and back in having it recreate the defaults to see if there
> > is some stale old settings interfering. Other than that I am out of
> > ideas it works fine here.
>
> Bingo.  My .kde/share/config/kmailrc had the following line in it:
>
> recent-encodings=iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859
>-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,i
>so-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8
>859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-
>1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-1,is
>o-8859-1
>
> Removing that line makes file insertion work again.  Kmail must have
> generated that somewhere along the line (I certainly didn't add it by
> hand), and it apparently causes the crash.
>
> So there are two problems here:
>         1) Kmail generated a recent-encodings line that is
>            somehow bogus.
>         2) Kmail doesn't validate recent-encodings when
>            reading it from kmailrc.

Yeah you definitely had something strange happen with Kmail I see 
nothing like that in my kmailrc.

>$ grep -i iso-88 .kde/share/config/kmailrc
pref-charsets=locale,iso-8859-1,utf-8,us-ascii
recent-encodings=iso-8859-15

Good to hear you got it working again BTW.

Stephen

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