Whilst attemtping to read my mail via IMAP+SSL, Kmail crashed. This is not a new occurrence, so I attempted to restart it. I was presented with the following message: "Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed." I have attempted to remove ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock to no avail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start kmail after it has crashed Actual Results: I get the message "Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed." Expected Results: Kmail should have started normally. emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -s -falign-functions=64 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -s -falign-functions=64 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fpermissive" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cups curl directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ext3 f77 fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal i8x0 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg junit kde kdexdeltas ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png python qt qtmt quicktime radeon readline real rtc samba sasl sdl slang sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 72001 [details] output of strace -f kmail
Does it happen after a reboot? There could be a leftover kmail process around. Have you got a backtrace?
You didn't mention which version of kmail you are using. I have encountered similar issues and it has been necessary to remove .kde/share/apps/kmail/imap due to corrupted cache issues. There are open bugs upstream on this issue.
I believe it was Kmail 1.8.3
Probably this is not reproducible anymore, please reopen if you have new info.
