On Thursday 15 January 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
On Thursday 15 January 2009 8:04:04 am Neal Becker wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 January 2009 06:54:12 Neal Becker wrote:
> > > I hate to say it, but at this point (4.2rc1) this is the least stable
> > > kde I've seen. kmail is now crashing repeatably. Akonadi crashes
> > > every time I open my calendar. I hope it's not released like this.
> >
> > I hate to say it, but, in reviewing the list messages for the past day,
> > this is the first indication from you of a problem. Did we miss
> > something? Have you put out a query as to whether others are having the
> > same issue? Have you made any attempt to figure out what is causing
> > your crashes? You are blaming the release - are you really so sure?
> > Only one other person is reporting a problem such as you describe, and
> > he gave some specifics. I'm not having it across multiple machines -
> > I'm sitting in front of two machines running kmail right this moment.
> > Making big declarations may relieve frustration of the moment, but they
> > don't usually lead to problem solving - a little more information from
> > your situation could lead to a resolution of your problem - what were
> > you doing before the crash, what log info can you provide, what's your
> > hardware, etc. etc... Your subject line is dismissive, and insulting,
> > of the hours and hours of work of many individuals and isn't going to
> > help you get support - it could be true, but until you provide some
> > data that others can replicate, you're just barking at the moon.
>
> Yes, yes, yes. I have reported many bugs to bugs.kde, and frequently
> also mention them here to see if others have the same experiences.
Sorry you are so frustrated Neal.
We do see your bug reports and I see your issues here.
Sometimes I bring them to the attention of the appropriate developer
and sometimes I don't have the time to do that.
We only have a couple days before 4.2.0 final is tagged.
If you could send me your top 2-3 most annoying bugs I will
try to see what I can do about getting them fixed.
-Allen, KDEPIM Module Coordinator
Thanks, very kind of you. The two major issues now are:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180741
This turns out to be 100% repeatable. Every day I receive a logwatch report
which gets filed into a certain mail list, and when I try to delete it kmail
crashes.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178220
Every time I start korganizer, I get 4 of these crash reports. Also, any time
I try to accept a ical invite message. Also, whenever bug 180741 fires, I get
4 of these crash reports. (Interesting, no?)
I could even live with a workaround, clearing out my akonadi related stuff, but
I don't know how to do that. The assumption here is that somewhere in the
course of fooling around with my akonadi resource stuff I hosed up some
database and that is causing the crashes.