[Bug 259065] [NEW] spell check with KMail and Aspell on NFS home receives ERESTARTSYS

[Stephan Diestelhorst]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kmail

What happened:

Writing a new email with KMail. Checking for spelling errors using
"Extra"->"Spell check..." (translated from the German captions) does not
check inside the mail, those in the subject line. If that is empty, the
text of the message is scanned. Seems like aspell dies after the first
invocation.

Spell checker is configured to use Aspell, encondig is UTF-8, dictionary
is GB-ise-w_accents. KDE is operating with a german locale. Using strace
it turns out that aspell dies early because (?) it receives ERESTARTSYS
from various I/O calls to the kernel, see attached strace logs. And then
just dies.

You can see the beginning of my email signature being correctly piped to
aspell, however, the resulting complaint box (the signature is in
German, checking with English dictionary should complain, plus there
were various random characters in the mail) never appears.

Spell checking in konqueror and kate works as expected.

My home directory resides on an NFS mounted volume.

Expected:
Proper checking of the message text.

Packages / versions:
kmail:
  Installed: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

aspell:
  Installed: 0.60.5-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.60.5-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.60.5-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release:        8.04

$ uname -r
2.6.24-19-generic

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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spell check with KMail and Aspell on NFS home receives ERESTARTSYS
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