Subject: Re: Broken applications in recent -current
To: None <p@ppires.org>
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/15/2005 18:17:07
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 +0100
Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:08:17 -0200
> Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have been having trouble with some applications in NetBSD/i386
> > after I upgraded in 12/08 (before lwp merge), and also after
> > upgrading it again today (12/13).  Affected applications include
> > kmail (natively built) and firefox-linux 1.0.7 Flash player plug-in.
> 
> All I can say is my Kmail works fine. I installed NetBSD on my desktop
> from scratch a couple of days ago with fresh KDE 3.5.
>  [yazzy@yazzy:~]> pkg_info | grep kdepim
> kdepim-3.5.0        Personal Information Management tools for the KDE
> desktop

Seems like I replied too quickly without throughly testing it.
My Kmail crashes now frequently, all it says is it got signal 11
(Crashing)
It seems like the more messages it fetches from my IMAP accounts the
more problems it has with being stable.

 
> [yazzy@yazzy:~]> uname -a
> NetBSD yazzy.yazzy.net 3.99.14 NetBSD 3.99.14 (YAZZY) #1: Tue Dec 13
> 20:11:58 CET 2005
> root@yazzy.yazzy.net:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/YAZZY i386
> 
> 
> > I couldn't track down either problem farther than kmail, after
> > starting and displaying its initial window, stops waiting for some
> > mysterious thing in a sigsuspend14() call. 
> 
> Maybe something not ritht in /tmp ? 
> /tmp/.ICE-unix not chown root:wheel ?
> 
> > Flash player is even more
> > strange: it hangs and causes firefox to also stop responding, but as
> > soon as successfully I kill the hung firefox (with SIGKILL), about
> > one second of audio from the flash movie gets played.
> > 
> > I thought it could be related to some library change, and rebuilt
> > the entire KDE package, to no good.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this?  Any ongoing open PR?
> > 
> > P.S.: Some may notice I am using kmail right now, but it is from
> > another (not-yet-upgraded) machine.
> > -- 
> > 	Pappires
> > 
> > ... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.
> >