KDE 2.2 beta is BETA! You should expect a few bugs. All you can do is
submit a bug report and wait. You may or may not receive a response.
This is ABSOLUTELY ACCEPTABLE.
It is annoying to hear complaints about being annoyed with beta
software. Either contribute to the source or be patient.
If this is still "unacceptable" to you, try this:
rpm -e kde2.2*
rpm -i kde2.1.1*
Terry
Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> This is REALLY annoying and I am wondering if anyone else has noted this with
> KDE 2.2 beta. I downloaded and installed the cooker 2.2 beta rpms and all
> works (for the most part, there are random kde app crashes now and then) but
> there is a truly annoying bug with kmail.
>
> I start it up and have it set to autocheck for mail every couple minutes (my
> usual). This works for a while but then, at some random point perhaps
> between 10 to 20 minutes of starting kmail, it just stops doing email
> checking and I cannot force it to. I note that my email inbox hasn't
> received any messages for quite a while (unusual during any given day as I am
> part of a handful of mailing lists) so I hit the "Check Mail" button.
> Nothing happens. It doesn't even try to contact my mailserver. I wait and
> do not see any hint of it trying to auto-check my mailserver. I close kmail
> and restart it and immediately it checks my mailserver and I get a handful of
> new messages - the messages that have backed up at the server because kmail
> has a stroke. Oddly, it can still send messages when after the "stroke" has
> occured - it just wont check for and download any messages. My /home
> partition is not full so that is not the problem.
>
> I can find no error messages on my system that seems to address a problem
> with connecting to my mailserver or any problem with kmail - but there IS a
> problem. I have posted this several times to the KDE mailing list but no one
> responds. Since I got the rpms for kde 2.2 beta from Mandrake Cooker, I am
> wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
>
> I must say it is intolerable to have to keep shutting down and restarting
> kmail every 15 minutes to continue getting email.
>
> Anyone? Where can I look to try to find the problem? I have tried my
> .xsession-errors, /var/log/messages...where else would be a likely place to
> look? If the damn app would crash at least I might get something from the
> bug handler or from a core but it doesn't have the decency to die properly.
>
> praedor
