Hi Gene,
On Wednesday 19 June 2019 22:05:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 June 2019 03:48:24 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 June 2019 02:44:35 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 16 June 2019 11:05:43 am Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
Over the last several days, kmail has gotten so unstable its not usable. Now tdewallet has also died, I have submitted 20+ crash reports, no reply, and I've no clue if it will even send this message. How about some help or an acnowlegement of the problem. I've rebooted, even re-installed all of kmail to no avail. I've also run memtest about 3 full cycles, no errors.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Let me add a bit more info to this kmail thread.
I just changed kernels on this machine, from 4.9.0.9-rt to 4.9.0.9, without the rt. Kmail always has a cow over to folders indices, so I expected to get a message about spam and spam-hold which both get touched by external scripts or by me moving messages around, but even if a nuke all the index files and then start or restart kmail, it has the rebuild done in 15 minutes or so.
But not this time. And lsof |grep index|wc -l shows its gone berzackers: gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l 310 gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep Mail|wc -l 310 gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l 520 gene@coyote:~/PublicA$ lsof |grep index|wc -l 638 And it just keeps growing the number. So I'm going to stop it, and nuke then all. Then restart and time it.
Back to a stable kmail, but it crashed about 2 secs after the first start. With zero indices it took 1:31 to start, but its still using a whole core at 100%, and the wc -l is growing by 10 or 20 almost everytime I rerun the lsof to get a new count gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 220 gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 240 gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 260 gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 270 gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 270 gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 280
And theres only about 41 directorys, but 2 of those have 16 and 18 subdirs so theres not quite 80 dirs all told. but there are 70147 msgs if I did it right, looks low.
gene@coyote:~$ lsof |grep Mail|grep .index|wc -l 380
Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we have a bug.
Back later with the results.
Interesting hour, during which I got to exercise amanda's amrecover. I'd committed Nik's fix message to a script, with a typu, and wiped the whole MaryAnn, so I had to run amrecover, and recover the whole thing as it existed about 2ish this morning. So I could be missing about 100 msgs that have come in since, or are we? The message I am replying to was sent about an hour ago? Ghosts? DamnedifIknw.
Anyway the indices were nuked, kmail has renewed them, albeit w/o any added marks. AND kmail has quit burning up a core in this old phenom.
Now, I had to change the ownership of two dir trees in /tmp before root could run amrecover. So since amanda runs as amanda, I'd better check that out. And amcheck seems to think its kewl.
But whats wrong with kmail? Why do I have to nuke ALL the index files to make it happy again.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
The more I read your posts, the more I'm concluding that you have a hardware issue ! I would take a good look at the main board, particularly around the CPU for bad capacitors. Also around the memory sticks, though there may not be any signs of bad caps around them.
Any that are leaking or even sightly swollen can be considered faulty ! The other possible issue could be the main PSU itself. Again bad capacitors in there will allow ripple and noise onto the power rails to cause corruption. Non of these is easy to fix ! Some will replace the bad components, but usually will just replace the PSU and main board.