powermail-discuss Digest #2936 - Wednesday, January 7, 2009
6.0 Crashing
by "Alan Harper" <[email protected]>
Re: 6.0 Crashing
by "Sean McBride" <[email protected]>
Re: 6.0 Crashing
by "Matthias Schmidt" <[email protected]>
Re: 6.0 Crashing
by "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Re: 6.0 Crashing
by "Bill Schjelderup" <[email protected]>
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Subject: 6.0 Crashing
From: "Alan Harper" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:12:09 -0800
Hi
PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern
to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute
reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly
to emails!
Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing?
Alan
PS, FWIW, I had similar problems with PM 5. I have since reinstalled my
entire system, and upgraded to PM 6. It appears that PM 6 crashes less
often than 5, but not significantly so.
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Subject: Re: 6.0 Crashing
From: "Sean McBride" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:36:37 -0500
Alan Harper ([email protected]) on 2009-01-06 12:12 AM said:
>PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern
>to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute
>reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly
>to emails!
>
>Has anyone else found this?
Maybe once a week for me.
>Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing?
Have you sent the crash logs to CTM?
You might be able to make the crash reproduce by turning on some OS X
debug features. Open Terminal and paste in the following:
export MallocPreScribble=1
export MallocScribble=1
export MallocGuardEdges=1
export MallocStackLogging=1
open /Applications/PowerMail.app
Sean
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Subject: Re: 6.0 Crashing
From: "Matthias Schmidt" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:27:42 +0100
Am/On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:12:09 -0800 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper:
>Hi
>
>PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern
>to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute
>reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly
>to emails!
>
>Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing?
>
>Alan
>
>PS, FWIW, I had similar problems with PM 5. I have since reinstalled my
>entire system, and upgraded to PM 6. It appears that PM 6 crashes less
>often than 5, but not significantly so.
I have no crashes at all with PM6 (build 4587).
Works very stable and without problems here on a MacBook Pro and a G4
Powerbook, both are running 10.5.6
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
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Subject: Re: 6.0 Crashing
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:01:06 +0100
Alan Harper ([email protected]) wrote:
> PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern
> to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute
> reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly
> to emails!
>
> Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing?
In my experience, PM 6 (and PM 5 before) crashes rarely, but when it
does, it is invariably when I try to send some mail with a large
attachment. At the stage when PM is supposed to do the zipping and
encoding of the attachment prior to actually sending the message, it
just displays the spinning beachball, then either crashes or freezes
until I do a force quit. When I re-open PM, it usually has to rebuild
its index; after that I find the outgoing message in the Out basket and
can dispatch it without problem.
- Michael
Michael J. Hußmann
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
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Subject: Re: 6.0 Crashing
From: "Bill Schjelderup" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:40:57 -0700
Alan,
I've been having these for a long time also.
Higher frequency with v5 than v6, but still the same problem.
I've sent many crash logs to ctmdev, but I have no idea if they have
helped or not.
The vast majority of these seem to occur when I'm performing a drag
event and a message is received; other times when PM is trying to image
a HTML email and some background operation occurs.
My theory is it's a threading problem...and clearly it's hard for them
to find.
Perhaps if we ALL send crash logs it will help....
(about 50% of the time a relaunch is quick, the other 50% it needs to
rebuild sort indexes...)
Oh, and this occurs on both my home and office machine (I carry my PM
database between offices via an external hard disk..)
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Bill Schjelderup -- [email protected]
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>Hi
>
>PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern
>to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute
>reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly
>to emails!
>
>Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing?
>
>Alan
>
>PS, FWIW, I had similar problems with PM 5. I have since reinstalled my
>entire system, and upgraded to PM 6. It appears that PM 6 crashes less
>often than 5, but not significantly so.
>
>
>
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