kmail 1.8 crashing.

[dave s]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 00:30, dave s wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2005 18:20, dave s wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 19:30, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 18:50, ubuntu at pusspaws.net wrote:
> > > > Is this what other people are experiencing or do I have a
> > > > configuration problem perculiar to my machine.
> > >
> > > KMail generally works fine for me.  One HUGE exception to that is when
> > > there's no diskspace left.  It really doesn't seem to have any coping
> > > mechanisms when the disk space runs out.  Check if you're close to your
> > > diskspace limit, either in absolute terms, or after considering your
> > > quotas and any software that might be periodically using up lots of
> > > space and then releasing it.
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Disk space is not a problem, I have 14GB free !
> >
> > So from all your replies I now know its something perculier to my
> > install. It has a fresh kubuntu install, the only thing I am wondering is
> > that I amended my sources.list to allow me to install abiword and eric3,
> > I err also did an upgrade. It did a lot of upgrading.
> >
> > Is it possible that I have upgraded kmail libs & dependencies causing
> > instability ?
> >
> > If I ammend sources.list Is it possible to remove kmail and all its
> > dependants, then re apt-get kmail causing all its dependencies to
> > re-install ? - come to that is it possible to remove the whole system
> > (gulp) and re apt-get the system.
> >
> > Any advice gratefully recieved
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dave
>
> OK I have re apt-get'd all dependents with
>
>
> DEPS=$(apt-cache depends kmail | grep Depends | grep -v "<" | awk '{print
> $2}')
> apt-get install --reinstall $DEPS
>
> Still the same instability ...
>
> So I wiped all filters & kept my bogofilter simple ... :)
> Seems a lot more stable, explains why kmail crashed when recieving mail as
> well as manualy filtering.
>
> Dave

Not one crash since, filters were the problem :)

Dave