On Tuesday 31 March 2015, Slávek Banko wrote:
On Saturday 28 of March 2015 13:17:17 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
Some comments:
I had a serious problem with updating to the latest R14.0.1 version (worth a differrent mail) from deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb raring deps-r14 main-r14
After update Kontact crashed badly, Kmail opened once, was unable to send (no response after trying to send) and crashed after killing it with "kill ..." constantly. Thus access to my old mails - very bad.
This is for me very interesting. I use KMail from TDE R14.0.1 (preliminary) every day and have not noticed problems. I use KMail alone - without Kontact. For you crashes occur in both cases? With and without Kontact?
Hi Slávek,
thanks a bunch for your interest. I try to elaborate as good as I remember:
I was since some time (months) on R14.0.1 from mirror mentioned above but without constantly updating. I had severe problems with gnuplot (using term x11) that - very often - crashed TDE in one instant without any message / notice anywhere. Very anoying! All open windows gone, I hat to logg-in again and recreate my working environment.
That was the reason to upgrade to the latest version of R14.0.1. Unfortunately I can not remember if I used apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade. All packeges have been updated successfully. Some time later, I realized that I no longer could launch Kontak with its icon. I launched it from Konsole and got the error message I described in my latest post.
For I mainly use Kmail from Kontakt I launched Kmail from Konsole and it opened and downloaded new mails. But trying to send a mail Kmail froze in sending and I was not able to stop the send process or to terminate Kmail by any button or menu entry. So I had to kill it.
Afterwards I was not longer able to launch Kmail. It crashed at once with a message I can not remember. For my guess was that it was due to the upgrade, I tried to downgrade to a save state (R14.0.0) with some troubles (described in the other mail).
After sucessfully deleting all TDE packages R14.0.1 and reinstalling R14.0.0 still I was not able to launch Kontakt or Kmail. I created a new testuser and logged in with a fresh .trinity folder. Kmail worked. Obviously something was broken in my .trinity settings. I tried to compare both folders / subfolders with "meld" without success.
Fortunately I hat a 2 month old backup of the .trinity folder that I restored. Afterwards Kontakt and Kmail worked again like a charm. So I suspect if I upgrade again to R14.0.1 it might work as well with the repaired .trinity folder but I have not yet tested (it's a production machine and I can not allow it to chrash again).
Nonetheless if I can do anything for further investigation please let me know.
Gerhard
PS: gnuplot still crashs X often when using (set term x11) for the graphical output. I meanwhile compiled latest version myself and use now "set term qt" as the graphical terminal that works without a hickup. I'm a bit surprised that an application is able to chrash X from one moment to the next.