Bug 204694

Summary:	kmail (in kontact) sometimes hangs when trying to send a mail
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	strace of the first thread of kontact strace of the second thread of kontact

Description Martin Steigerwald 2009-08-21 20:36:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Sometimes when I try to send a mail with Kontact the application just hangs after entering the KWallet password. The mail compose window is dimmed a bit as if a dialog window has been opened, but there is none - I just double checked by moving every window on every virtual desktop out of the way. Its currently still hanging and I made an

strace -ff -p 12179 -o Zeit/kontact-strace-2009-08-21.txt

I attach the strace results in a moment.

My current workaround is to kill Kontact and hope that KMail will remember the mail I was about to send. Upto now this has worked, but it is extremely annoying cause the issue does happen quite often - but not everytime.

I have no idea on how to provide further debug information. If you have one, please tell me.

shambhala:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(kmail|kdepim|kdelibs)"
kdelibs/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs-bin/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs-data/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs-dbg/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs4c2a/squeeze uptodate 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
kdelibs5/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-data/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdelibs5-dev/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-groupware/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-kresources/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-runtime/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-runtime-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-strigi-plugins/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepim-wizards/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepimlibs-data/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepimlibs-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepimlibs5/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kdepimlibs5-dev/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
kmail/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1
libkdepim4/sid uptodate 4:4.3.0-1

Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2009-08-21 20:37:53 UTC

Created attachment 36336 [details]
strace of the first thread of kontact

Comment 2 Martin Steigerwald 2009-08-21 20:40:00 UTC

Created attachment 36337 [details]
strace of the second thread of kontact

it just select()'s and appears to wait on something. Kontact uses up to 4-6 % of CPU on my IBM ThinkPad T42 with Pentium M 1.8 GHz CPU.

Comment 3 Johannes Wolter 2009-10-03 14:41:24 UTC

I'm having the same problem; I think it started one month ago and it's really annoying since every second E-Mail gets stuck. If needed I can provide a strace or other debug info too.

Comment 4 Johannes Wolter 2009-10-13 10:23:56 UTC

*** Bug 210414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-05 00:17:21 UTC

Do you still have this with updated kmail versions now?

Comment 6 Johannes Wolter 2010-03-05 00:25:24 UTC

No, I didn't experience kmail/kontact hanging after/whie sending an email any more.

Comment 7 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-05 00:29:35 UTC

May have been a bug in early 4.3? Closing for the moment, just reopen in case the problem returns