Bug#406984: kmail: fills up .xsession-errors with errors

[David Lee Lambert]

I've seen this bug too. I've left kmail unattended for a while on a couple of 
occasions, and .xsession-errors grew to about 4GB,  which filled the 
partition to 100%.

When I run kmail from an xterm I can see the error-messages scrolling up the 
screen,  many per second.  Even after I close kmail,  the kio_imap4 processes 
hang around;  just now I had three of them,  bringing the system load-average 
to about 6.

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Bug#406984: kmail: fills up .xsession-errors with errors

[Marcus Better]

I think the debug messages can be disabled with kdebugdialog, probably the 
checkbox 7017 kio (KIOConnection).

A quick look in the KDE bugzilla show that there are dozens of KDE bugs 
resulting in a flood of messages in xession-errors:
  http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=kmail+xsession-errors

Perhaps debug messages should be disabled altogether by default, until 
upstream manages to fix the crappy code so it doesn't spam the debug output. 
(Even syslogd has rate-limiting!)


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Bug#406984: kmail: fills up .xsession-errors with errors

[Marcus Better]

Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4
Severity: important

I frequently notice that kmail starts filling up my disk quickly, at a
rate of 1 MB/s. I'm using disconnected IMAP accounts.

I think the reason is that something fills my .xsession-errors with
these messages:

  kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data

I had over a gigabyte of these messages recently. Shutting down kmail
and killing all the kio_imap4 processes stopped the messages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc6-kelev
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii  libart-2.0-2   2.3.17-1  Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2  1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6  2.3.6.ds1-8   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6   2.2.1-5   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc11:4.1.1-21GCC support library
ii  libice61:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11   0.6.5-1   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62  6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkcal2b  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdepim1a4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE PIM library
ii  libkleopatra1  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii  libkmime2  4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE MIME interface library
ii  libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE PIM user identity information 
ii  libksieve0 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii  libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-4  KDE mime library
ii  libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt  3:3.3.7-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6 4.1.1-21  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6   2:1.0.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor11.1.7-4   X cursor management library
ii  libxext6   1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft22.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1   1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender11:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  perl   5.8.8-7   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii  procmail  3.22-16Versatile e-mail processor

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