Bug 168319

Summary:	Kontact may loose currently edited email when crashing
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Dennis Schridde 2008-08-04 12:44:14 UTC

Version:           1.2.9 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.1 Gentoo 4.3.1-r1 p1.1
OS:                Linux

While experiencing continues crashes due to bug #168316, I also noticed that Kontact lost the email I was currently editing.
After the first crashes the email was still present and got opened when restarting Kontact, but when I was finished editing the mailinglist, it was simply gone. I can not exactly tell how many continuous crashes are required to make Kontact loose that email.
This is highly annoying to the user, who is likely to be already upset by the preceeding crashes.

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2008-08-04 13:16:01 UTC

"emerge --info":

Portage 2.2_rc6 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:45:03 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gtk hal iconv ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos latex ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl sdl session speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vcd visualization vorbis x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 2 Dennis Schridde 2008-08-04 14:40:33 UTC

Useful command to get your email back:

grep -ab "SOME TEXT YOU WROTE" /dev/DISK
#remember the OFFSET it outputs
dd bs=1 skip=OFFSET count=APPROX_LENGTH if=/dev/DISK

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 19:19:54 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kontact (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 4 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:14:24 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.