From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P4e5v-00043a-Ol for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:24:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9DEEE04C7; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from etch.riddlemaster.org (riddlemaster.org [209.170.146.89]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F20E04C7 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merlin ([192.168.2.12] helo=merlin.localnet) by etch.riddlemaster.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P4e54-000696-DI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:23:38 -0400 From: Daniel D Jones To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:22:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010091422.57693.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-Spam_score_int: -9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: Spam detection software, running on the system "etch.riddlemaster.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Recently started having problems with Composer, the editor of Kmail. This only happens with the editor when I'm writing an email. It doesn't happen when I'm just reading mail. At random intervals, Composer will freeze for anywhere from fifteen or so seconds up to around 60 seconds. When it's frozen, it's completely unresponsive. Moving the mouse cursor over it causes the mouse cursor to disappear. During this time, it doesn't even show up in top sorted by CPU usage. I'm sure it's there, it's just not using enough CPU to make the top of the list. [...] Content analysis details: (-1.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Archives-Salt: 1f2ae334-4c7b-40ce-89be-95bf66759570 X-Archives-Hash: 80cc1fcefdd8ba76827a446f0e8cf2fd Recently started having problems with Composer, the editor of Kmail. This only happens with the editor when I'm writing an email. It doesn't happen when I'm just reading mail. At random intervals, Composer will freeze for anywhere from fifteen or so seconds up to around 60 seconds. When it's frozen, it's completely unresponsive. Moving the mouse cursor over it causes the mouse cursor to disappear. During this time, it doesn't even show up in top sorted by CPU usage. I'm sure it's there, it's just not using enough CPU to make the top of the list. I've tried recompiling Kmail without any success. My guess is that it's trying to access some external resource and timing out, but I'm not able to determine what that might be. Akonadi is running using the external MySQL server but everything seems to be running properly. Checking with the Akonaditray "Test" button brings up no errors. Spellcheck is working, and disabling automatic spellcheck does not fix the problem. I'm not aware of any other external processes that Composer uses. I tried to work around this by configuring Kmail to use an external editor, but Kmail still loads Composer. When it does so, key strokes do not work properly - they seem to move the cursor around randomly but they don't enter text in the editor. Resetting the editor configuration to the internal editor causes the editor to accept keystrokes properly but brings back the random freezing issue. I suspect the freezes and the inability to use an external editor are separate issues but I'm not sure. Any help on tracking down the cause is greatly appreciated. -- "Chastity [is] the most unnatural of the sexual perversions." - Aldous Huxley