Bug 228612

Summary:	kmail hangs after relogin
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Roman Fietze <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Roman Fietze 2010-02-26 13:36:41 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Following procedure:

- login to host, start kontact, switch to mail
- exit kontact (and lock screen)

- go to another terminal and login via NX, XDMCP or just switch sessions
- use the same login/user again
- start kontact

Now kontact hangs and has to be killed. I assume kmail, because I get a stale /var/spool/mail/ lock file after the test. But because I'm not yet 100% sure, I assigned the bug to kontact for now.

This worked fine with versions prior to 4.4.

I did that for years using KDE 3.x w/o any problem, leaving the session open in the company because I have thousands of applications and xterms open, and relogin from home via NX, e.g. to check for mail. kontact/kmail was of course never running on the company session any more.

Comment 1 Roman Fietze 2010-02-26 14:32:17 UTC

Correction:

The procedure has to be as follows:

- login to host, start kontact, switch to mail
- exit kontact (and lock screen)

- go to another terminal and login via NX, XDMCP or just switch sessions
- use the same login/user again
- start kontact, switch to mail
- exit kontact
- logout second session

- go back to the first session
- start kontact

Now kontact hangs while starting and has to be killed.

Comment 2 Roman Fietze 2010-09-14 07:51:43 UTC

Still valid for KMail 1.13.5 using KDE 4.5.1, using openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 KDE Factory Repos.

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 19:23:25 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 22:35:20 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.