Re: KMail 5.4.2/Fedora 25 very unstable

On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 12:54:02 AM MDT O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 03/13/17 19:27, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >   I upgraded to Fedora 25 with KMail 5.4.2 this weekend and KMail is
> >   very unstable. Simple things like scrolling through a message or
> >   resizing the messages pane cause it to lock up or crash. My
> >   View->Message List->Sorting sessions are never saved. A mysqld
> >   process I assume is used by Akonadi (I don't use MySQL for anything
> >   else) is constantly writing to disk.
> >   
> >   I have run akonadictl fsck and vacuum. I do not have any problem
> >   retrieving or reading messages unless I have to scroll them.
> >   
> >   I've Googled a lot and read bug reports but I find nothing that
> >   relates to my situation. What could be going on? Right now KMail is
> >   barely usable.
> 
> try deleting .xsessionerrors (could be wrong filename, taken out of my
> head) it helped me. Why I have no idea

Thanks. Sadly, not for me. KMail crashed when I scrolled to the next reply, 
and on the next restart as I navigated back to the answer that followed yours.

I saw one mention in one bug report about Nouveau being the problem and I'm 
starting to suspect that and thinking of moving to the nVidia blob.