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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    tearing my hair
From:       dep <dep () snet ! net>
Date:       2000-04-26 20:10:13
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i'm still attempting to be scientific here, and i'm still failing to 
fix the problem with the current -- cvsup harvest of last evening -- 
kmail 1.1.41.

to describe the problem again, it opens and appears to run fine if 
there are no messages in the inbox. if there are messages, the list 
is displayed for <1 second, after which the entire kmail window 
becomes white, with the  title of the selected message across its 
top; after <1 second, the entire kmail window closes and that's that. 
a comparison of kmail 1.1.40, which works fine here, and kmail 
1.1.41, which doesn't, in ~/.xerrors (which under kde2 grows very 
large in a hurry) shows absolutely no difference in what's logged.

system is a pretty vanilla linux running 2.2.12 kernel, glibc-2.1, 
xfree-3.3.5. the entire head branch built with only these errors: an 
undefined reference to crypt prevented the construction of 
/kdebase/kdm, and kdepim didn't build.

i have thusfar deleted all my ~/Mail/.*.index files. i have renamed 
my ~/Mail and started anew. i have moved my 
~/.kde/share/config/kfmrc. i have bumped resolution and depth from 
1280x1024x32bpp to 1024x768x16bpp. i have gotten and installed the 
nvidia server (my card is a riva 128zx w/8 megs).

even so, the above misbehavior takes place whenever an attempt is 
made to view a message, either in the inbox or in another folder. gdb 
provides nothing of use. and if i switch back to the earlier kde2 
build, i am able to read all messages in all folders (though of 
course the indices need then to be regenerated.)

i have gotten ishmail, spruce, and mahogany and built and installed 
all but ishmail, which is of course precompiled; plus all the various 
libraries they need in order to build and run, and they've been able, 
mostly, to read kmail folders, but do not really do the job.

the rest of kde2 seems to run reasonably well. and in kmail 1.1.41 i 
can fiddle with the settings and, actually, do anything except read 
mail. i suspect that if i were to save this message for later 
delivery (in fact, i'll try this; if there's no addition below to the 
contrary, my suspicion will have been correct) that were i to try to 
look at it, kmail would crash.

i realize that this isn't much to go on; fwiw, the kmail of 4/16 is 
the last one from which i've gotten success, though i do not try to 
build kde2 every day, so i probably didn't even make the attempt 
until 4/18 or 19 -- whenever it was that the sort-by-status option 
was added, because i had requested it and very much wanted to use it.

inspection of the folder files in ~/Mail shows nothing out of the 
ordinary, and again, they all are displayed just fine in kmail 
1.1.40. the crash occurs only when kmail 1.1.41 is trying to display 
a message.

i'm at my wit's end (okay, okay -- not a long trip, ho ho). anybody 
have any ideas as to why this is happening and how i can fix it?

tia.
-- 
dep
--
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free
never was, and never shall be. -- Thomas Jefferson

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