Bug#727800: kmail: KMail goes bonkers following Qt update
The migration bug is the one kmail bug I've been able to reproduce repeteadly.
I have a work-around patch that basically does
akonadictl restart
when the migrator says "Migration Done" I've been hoping that upstream would
say if that's a reasonable work around.
I haven't figured out how to reproduce the other kmail bugs.
And yes, one of KDE's design choices is that everything is integrated, so not
shipping kmail2 would be very difficult if not impossible.
You might also want to check out the current versions of evolution or
thunderbird. Both are also quite decent mail clients.
Diane
On Monday, December 15, 2014 01:21:18 Shai Berger wrote:
> Finally got to it.
>
> The upgrade was not smooth at all; the update script ended quickly enough,
> but the real upgrade only happened when I opened KMail. I had the same
> experience as last time -- KMail shows blank folders, nothing seems to be
> going on, except if you look for it. At some point KMail's little
> "operation in progress" bar (bottom right progress bar when doing
> something) lit up with 0%. I tried to click the up-arrow next to it, to see
> what KMail was doing. After that, looking from another X session, I saw
> mysqld, akonadiserver and kwin(!) all taking 100% CPU (I have four cores).
> Pretty soon after that, kwin managed to make the X server completely
> unresponsive -- not even Ctrl-Alt-Fn to go to another session. This
> happened twice, so I'm calling it reproducible. Perhaps it should just be
> reported elsewhere -- I suspect a grave bug in the upgrade.
>
> It seems like the mails themselves made it through the upgrade; I haven't
> yet verified the filters and identities. The computer that runs Sid serves
> the whole family, and I had to reboot it to restore it to functional after
> running the imported user.
>
> A little off-topic, w.r.t. a comment Lisandro made earlier -- I understand
> that not shipping Akonadi is not an option. Would you say the same about
> KMail2?
>
> Thanks,
> Shai.
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