Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (133 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Matt Williams <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Wednesday 18 June 2003 13:51, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
> Mr. Williams :)
> 
> Hello :)
> 
> >By "reading", I assume e-mails that are already in your mbox. Hmm,
> sending
> >them has nothing to do with your ability to access your mbox (usually
> >/var/spool/mail/$USER).
> 
> yeah reading the mails that have already been downloaded.
> 
> >Exactly *which* process are you checking for (I assume it is "kmail")
> and
> >in what state is it reported in (Z, S, etc). This is fundamentally
> >important in diagnosing your problem since it might help us determine
> how
> >kmail is dying.
> 
> Yes kmail, er state is S I think.

State "S" means that it has suspended. Hmm...
 
> Ok all the following details are kmail has 'crashed' but before I
> manually 
> kill the process. 
> The process is still shown in the process list.

Of course :) 

[..elided..] -- nothing odd there.

Right -- now I am going to get to run "strace" on it, i.e. from an xterm,
run:

strace -s 10000 -vfo ~/kmail.out kmail

Use kmail as you normally would, and when it crashes, e-mail me the output
of the above.

Thanks,

-- Thomas Adam


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Thomas Adam

"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com

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