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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: tearing my hair
From:       Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date:       2000-04-26 23:53:18
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To me it sounds like a problem with the html widget. 

If you goto kdelibs/khtml and
make testkhtml
and try and a view a page with something like
./testkhtml your-qt-copy/doc/html/index.html

does it work, or does it crash or lock up?

Can you compile konqueror and get it to run? (Actually for a week of so
konqueror has been segfaulting at start up here).

If you completely move our .kde directory out of the way can you get KMail to
work?

But there are several things that don't make sense.
You say KMail 1.1.40 work but KMail 1.1.41 does not. Does this mean that you
can get KMail 1.1.40 to work on top of the kde libraries that you checked out
along with 1.1.41? (I mean reconfigure that package to use the newer kde
libraries and install it)

How about the other way can you get KMail 1.1.41 to work on top of the
libraries you checked out with 1.1.40?

Another thing to try is to reconfigure the kdenetwork package containing KMail
1.1.41 
./configure your-normal-options --enable-debug

then remake KMail and then use gdb to get a backtrace.

BFN,
Don.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, dep wrote:
> 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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