Bug 56278

Summary:	crash on startup with ~/Mail a symlink to nonexistent nfs share
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	werner
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ce, cies
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	kmail-nfs-bug-bt.txt.gz

Description werner 2003-03-23 17:00:08 UTC

Version:           1.5 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-xfs_pre6

I just noticed that with my ~/Mail directory beeing a symlink
to a remote directory on an nfs server (which works ok so far),
kmail crashes upon startup in case the nfs share is not mounted for some reason.
this is not really a problem since I know what I have to do in this case,
but I think it would be better to give a warning message instead of a
crash.

Comment 1 Zack Rusin 2003-03-23 19:31:01 UTC

Can we get a backtrace?

Comment 2 werner 2003-03-23 20:09:34 UTC

Subject: Re:  crash on startup with ~/Mail a symlink to nonexistent nfs share

On Sonntag, 23. M

Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2003-03-23 23:12:30 UTC

Subject: Re:  crash on startup with ~/Mail a symlink to nonexistent nfs share

This bug is very easy to reproduce with
  mv ~/Mail ~/Mail.tmp
  ln -s doesntexist ~/Mail
i.e. make ~/Mail a broken symlink.

Comment 4 Ingo Klöcker 2003-03-27 18:48:45 UTC

*** Bug 56485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Till Adam 2003-06-04 08:26:06 UTC

Thanks for your bugreport. This bug has been fixed in the current development version of 
kmail. The fix will be in kmail 1.6.

Comment 6 Thiago Macieira 2003-06-15 21:26:42 UTC

*** Bug 59837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***