Bug#923291: kmail: syncing inbox(es) never finishes

[Sandro Knauß]

Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
Control: reassign -1 akonadi-server 4:18.08.3-4
Control: affects -1 kmail

Hey Juha,

thanks for giving input about the current state of kmail. Unfortunately these 
are not enough information to tackle down the issue.

Your issue sounds that  a Akonadi Resource is stuck. Please use akonadiconsole 
for debugging. At frist enable logging at the logging tab.

go to the Agent tab select the resource that got stuck and select "Show task 
list" and print the output. The queues should all be empty if the sync was 
successful.

We may properly to distinguish the issue for google, as goolge's imap 
implementation is wired, so let's focus on opensource mailserver dovecot first.

> Steps to reprocude: start kmail, let it run for a while, checking inboxes
> either manually or letting the automatic interval check do it for you. In
> less than 15 minutes at least one of the inboxes gets stuck.

I can't reproduce it on my setup. And I use 5 different accounts dovecot and 
kolab.

Do you have stable inet for your tests? If inet went away while syncing, than 
sometime Akonadi don't recover. Also putting my laptop to sleep while 
currently if syncing breaks Akonadi sometimes.

But in the end of this, it will not be a Debian issue, so you need to to 
report the bug upstream: https://bugs.kde.org. Please leave a note about the 
concrete link to the upstream bugreport, so we can track the state inhere.

hefee

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Bug#923291: kmail: syncing inbox(es) never finishes

[Juha Jäykkä]

Package: kmail
Version: 4:18.08.3-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Very often, almost as often as not, syncing an imap inbox never finishes. It 
will 
get stuck at any progress level, from 0% to 100% (yes, it even gets stuck at
100%). This happens with at least google's imap servers as well as three 
different
dovecot servers.

Steps to reprocude: start kmail, let it run for a while, checking inboxes either
manually or letting the automatic interval check do it for you. In less than 15
minutes at least one of the inboxes gets stuck.

Sometimes normal operation can only be recovered by manually restarting the 
stuck
agent, but sometimes only restarting the whole akonadi sorts it out.

This makes kmail unusable for me due to the frequency of restarts: often I need 
to
restart aknoadi between each two emails I read. Assuming this is not 
widespread, 
because if this is, the bug should be RC.

Cheers,
Juha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  akonadi-server   4:18.08.3-4
ii  kdepim-runtime   4:18.08.3-1
ii  kio  5.54.1-1
ii  libc62.28-7
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ii  libkf5akonadicontact54:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadicore5abi2   4:18.08.3-4
ii  libkf5akonadimime5   4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadisearch-bin  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadisearch-plugins  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadisearchdebug54:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadisearchpim5  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5akonadiwidgets5abi14:18.08.3-4
ii  libkf5bookmarks5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5calendarcore5abi2  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5calendarutils5 4:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5codecs55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5completion55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5configcore55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5configgui5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5configwidgets5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5contacts5  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5coreaddons55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5crash5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5dbusaddons55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5followupreminder5  4:18.08.3-2
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ii  libkf5gravatar5abi2  4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5guiaddons5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5iconthemes55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5identitymanagement518.08.3-2
ii  libkf5itemmodels55.54.0-1
ii  libkf5itemviews5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5jobwidgets55.54.0-1
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ii  libkf5kiocore5   5.54.1-1
ii  libkf5kiofilewidgets55.54.1-1
ii  libkf5kiowidgets55.54.1-1
ii  libkf5kontactinterface5  18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5ksieveui5  4:18.08.3-2
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ii  libkf5libkdepim5 4:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5libkdepimakonadi5  4:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5libkleo5   4:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5mailcommon5abi24:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5mailtransport5 18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5mailtransportakonadi5  18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5messagecomposer5abi1   4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5messagecore5abi1   4:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5messagelist5abi1   4:18.08.3-1
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ii  libkf5mimetreeparser5abi14:18.08.3-1
ii  libkf5notifications5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5notifyconfig5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5parts5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5pimcommon5abi2 4:18.08.3-2
ii  libkf5pimcommonakonadi5abi1  4:18.08.3-2
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ii  libkf5sendlater5 4:18.08.3-2
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