Bug 227427

Version:           Kmail 1.12.4 (using KDE 4.3.5)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Kmail is crashing X-server I believe in that I'm taking out of my GUI and dropped into a command line login. Karmic realizes within 15 seconds that I'm on the command line and takes me to the X Server login. When I log back in, all work in all applications have been lost. Therefore I think it is an X-server crash. This type of crash has only occurred while I'm doing something in kmail. Therefore I believe that kmail is crashing X. I don't see any type of kmail warning, crash report, etc.

About 75% of the time if I look at an emailed Google news dispatch with Chinese characters in it, I get the kmail/X-server crash. The Chinese character crash hasn't occurred in a "while" though I am still occasionally receiving the type of emails that would crash.

This morning, Kmail/X-server has crashed within five, maybe ten, minutes of each other when I tried copying (not pasting but the first step of a copy-paste). First time crash was when I tried either to hightlight or right click copy the name of an attachment in an email.

Second crash was the same however I was either highlighting text or had right-clicked copy normal email text.

Both errors are soft in that I can repeat them consistently.