Summary: | all of my settings for kmail disappear sometimes for no apparent reason | ||
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Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Michael Wray <mwray> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 1.4 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | openSUSE | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Michael Wray
2002-06-26 13:36:08 UTC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 June 2002 15:36 mwray@hecomm.org wrote: > Ocassionally after a few uses (sometimes weeks sometimes days...) > when I log into Kmail ALL of my settings are lost..My Identities are > gone My Network setup is gone and my filters are gone...My messages > and folders remain in tact...just my settings disappear. I don't kill [snip] It seems KMail's config file gets deleted or corrupted every now and then. > Is there a way for me to back up those settings until a fix occurs? All settings are stored in .kde/share/config/kmailrc [snip] > I don't think I had this problem before I started using REGEX...I'm > not sure though... It's very unlikely that the usage of regex is related to the lost settings. > I'm only averageing 20 messages a day and am under a total of 4000 > messages in my mail boxes. (Somewhere in the neighbor hood of 3600 > messages...) I also am using xcin..but rarely use it..but it is > always running..and am wondering if this may cause any issues... What is xcin? > I'm sorry I don't know how to specifically force the error to happen > as its only happened about 10 times and it happens so > infrequently..like I said usually several weeks go by.. Are you probably using ReiserFS? I ask because if your computer crashes then files might get corrupted when you use (an older?) ReiserFS. Regards Ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9GkFqGnR+RTDgudgRArUQAJ0VNA7Vfrk40HJ/rgJ7eUP5syfHMgCgstUr nexPnEp/9V1fESIc3jLElWI= =gYgV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- On Wednesday 26 June 2002 17:34 Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker wrote: > [snip] > > What is xcin? Xcin is an alternate input method for X. It allows input of Chinese=20 characters...even works with KMail...=E4=BD=A0=E5=A5=BD=E5=90=97 ("how are= you?" in Chinese). > > > I'm sorry I don't know how to specifically force the error to happen > > as its only happened about 10 times and it happens so > > infrequently..like I said usually several weeks go by.. > > Are you probably using ReiserFS? I ask because if your computer crashes > then files might get corrupted when you use (an older?) ReiserFS. > Yes....It is the default with SuSE 8.0...Funny..they haven't released any= =20 announcements about that issue..but obviously they have the bug still in=20 their kernels as I have lost my man pages to this bug..Thanks for the=20 info..one I didn't know... I'll try backing up that file...it seems unused files don't get touched by = the=20 bug..if they are in unused directories... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 04:02 Michael Wray wrote: > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 17:34 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > Are you probably using ReiserFS? I ask because if your computer > > crashes then files might get corrupted when you use (an older?) > > ReiserFS. > > Yes....It is the default with SuSE 8.0...Funny..they haven't released > any announcements about that issue..but obviously they have the bug > still in their kernels as I have lost my man pages to this > bug..Thanks for the info..one I didn't know... > > I'll try backing up that file...it seems unused files don't get > touched by the bug..if they are in unused directories... As this is no KMail bug I close your report. BTW you should use ext3 or xfs instead of ReiserFS. So far I didn't have any problems with xfs and as ext3 is based on ext2 it should also be pretty safe. Nevertheless regular backups are a must. Regards Ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9G50AGnR+RTDgudgRAjoxAKDcOHJpGKsIjV97aRfBLBlMJMsbGACfY0ai kUNTwLyPK9kQ2ATSPBQlT3Q= =1WP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |