Bug 137364

Summary:	crash when using big attachements (bad_alloc)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Olaf Schubert <bugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Olaf Schubert 2006-11-14 22:38:45 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

When attaching big files to an E-Mail, Kontact crashes after a short while. I encountered this bug when trying to attach several images with a total size of about 30MB.

I was able to reproduce the crash with these steps:
1) $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/bigFile count=50k
2) attach via drag&drop /tmp/bigFile to an empty message
Kontact takes some time (3-5 seconds) and then crashes.

The last message (when opening kontact inside a konsole) was:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  St9bad_alloc

I guess I ran out of memory (though it'd be nice to get an error message instead of a crash :-) )

This might be related to the fact, that I (for some reason) don't have a swap-partition any more (which I just found out - maybe something related to my recent update to kubuntu edgy - which apparently converts some things in /etc/fstab).

Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-11-15 14:33:21 UTC

*** Bug 137361 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-08 22:11:41 UTC

I did not have any problems with the steps you've described.

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-31 00:06:11 UTC

I haven't them too in KDE 4.2+