Re: KMail locks up
Ferdinand Gassauer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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> On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 07 June 2010 18:31:15 John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > I think that if anything was left over, still running, KMail > > > > wouldn't start a new session - or at least would warn you of the > > > > possibility. How recent is your version? This could be very > > > > important. Quite long freezes were common a while back, but were > > > > cured some time ago - I'm not sure whether that was in late 4.3 or > > > > early 4.4 days. > > > > > > I'm still running F11, KMail 1.13.3 and KDE 4.4.3. As I said, I can > > > kill everything and restart, and it works fine from then on, but it's > > > freezing up after I shut down my remote session, drive home (~60 > > > minutes) and start up KMail again. > > > > Is 4.4.3 the latest you can get? I'd certainly recommend updating if > > you can. I think you'll find that the problem disappears if you do. > > > Ok. I upgraded to Fedora 13, which is the "bleeding edge" version of Linux. > i'm still stuck on 4.4.3 and still having the lock-up problems. :-( > > This time I was typing a message and KMail just totall froze on me. a "ps - > aux | grep mail" showed KMail was in the process of trying to POP email. Is > this what is causing problems? The fact that I'm trying to POP email while > typing a message? Say it ain't so! Just doesn't make any sense that a > modern email client can't receive email while typing a message? FWIW, I've > got plenty of resources left, memory-wise... > [john@slave1 ~]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3929076 3229360 699716 0 246976 1976208 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1006176 2922900 > Swap: 2059112 5360 2053752 > > Any idea on how to fix it? > > thanks! > _______________________________________________ > KDE PIM users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users > I am experiencing freezing/hanging processes of KMail / IMAP if the internet connection breaks during operation - then I have to kill some imap processes manually (4.4.3) -- cu ferdinand