Don Sanders wrote:

> Can you get a backtrace from gdb?

yup. i've now replaced *everything.* brand new linux distribution,
caldera  2.4, full install, XFree-3.3.5, kde2 built from prostine cvsup
harvest. still kmail crashes; in this case, it also locked up tight
rather than up and disappearing. entire source tree, even kdepim, built
with nary a hiccup. when run without gdb, the thing crashes with  a
broken pipe error.

anyway, here it is.

[dep@noname dep]$ gdb kmail
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This GDB was configured as "i386-COL-linux"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/kde/bin/kmail
Qt: gdb: -nograb added to command-line options.
         Use the -dograb option to enforce grabbing.
entering KMKernel::init()
load # kmail addressbook file
[which is then listed]
iconloader (kdelibs): Theme tree: (KDE-HiColor: (KDE-LoColor))
exiting KMKernel::init()
KMKernel::openReader called
iconloader (kdelibs): Theme tree: (KDE-HiColor: (KDE-LoColor))
khtml (html): HTMLDocumentImpl constructor2 this = 0x82a0b98
khtml (css): empty property list
khtml (css): bad style rule
khtml (css): child selector
khtml (css): empty property list
khtml (css): bad style rule
khtml (html): style: parsing sheet 'a[href] { color:
#0000ff;text-decoration: no
ne; }'
khtml (css): found body element
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderRoot)::updateSize()
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderRoot)::updateHeight()
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderObject)::setContainingBlock()
containingBlock =
= 0, setting to this
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderRoot)::updateHeight()
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderRoot)::updateHeight()
khtml (render): RenderRoot(RenderRoot)::updateHeight()
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
0x2ba75354 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x2ba75354 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x8332560 in ?? ()
#2  0x80da544 in KpgpBaseG::decrypt ()
#3  0x80d9057 in KpgpBase::setMessage ()
#4  0x80d39af in Kpgp::setMessage ()
#5  0x80ab1ab in KMReaderWin::writeBodyStr ()
#6  0x80a8dc1 in KMReaderWin::parseMsg ()
#7  0x80a847f in KMReaderWin::parseMsg ()
#8  0x80a7ca3 in KMReaderWin::updateReaderWin ()
#9  0x2b5c4935 in QObject::activate_signal () from
/usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#10 0x2b7312af in QTimer::timeout () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#11 0x2b60a7d6 in QTimer::event () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#12 0x2b56b7aa in QApplication::notify () from
/usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#13 0x2b4fe7d9 in qt_activate_timers () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#14 0x2b4fca1a in QApplication::processNextEvent ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#15 0x2b56cd6c in QApplication::enter_loop () from
/usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#16 0x2b4fc791 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt.so.2
#17 0x810398f in main ()
#18 0x2b9e8736 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)