On Saturday 14 November 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Twice in the last 2 weeks I have been forced to reboot the machine, as it > had a locked up, unkillable session of kmail showing in htop. I had hit > the list reply button, only to be greeted by the spinning dumbell mouse > cursor, which would spin forever. The machine was NOT stuck in a loop > someplace burning up cpu's, nothing, not even kmail was showing any > great cpu activity, but the process itself was unkillable. > > This time I was attempting to teach Bret Busby how to construct a sig > separator, the \r-- \r sequence and it was one of his reply messages I > was reading & tried to reply to when it locked up. > > This reboot took around 30 minutes because /amandatapes-1T, a terabyte > drive, had not been fsck'd in 181 days, and fscking a terabyte drive, > even if no errors other than severe fragmentation (62%) exist is a 30 to > 45 minute process. Amanda, the backup program, /thinks/ the drive is a > 30 tape, changer equiped library. (except its 10,0000% more dependable > that such a mechanical monster would be, and 2% of the cost) I'd hate to > think how long it will take to do a 2 terabyte drive as there is now 4 > of them here at the Heskett mini-ranchette. Its difficult to buy > anything smaller. > > I deleted the last 4 messages from him from ~/Mail/kubuntu-users/cur > before I restarted kmail, knowing I'd be going thru the same hung > machine procedure if I didn't. Last time I made 3 reboots trying, and > finally just cleaned out the folder (a different one) before trying a > 4th reboot & kmail restart. That, like this, complained about the index > file being corrupted on the launch of kmail but normal operation was > able to be resumed. > > Has anyone a clue just what gmail is doing now? Or how to fix kmail so > it tolerates a message posted from their (IMNSHO) busted webmail app? > > This is R14.0.0.2 I believe. Last updated from Slavics? server a day > back. > Looks like I'll need to reboot again, I have a net caused ooops in the > log, and my local network is dead although I can ping yahell. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Gmail has had some hiccups of late. As Google is trying to implement more DRM & spyware into their products and services. Gmail recently went down for a few hours according to a contact. Try activating the pop along with imap. I use that combo and all is well. When I use the imap alone, bad things happen "Bad things Mickey!" Cheers to all, Kate