On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:48:16 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 24 March 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:01:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I've had several hard lockups over the last day, possibly related to a > >> tickless kernel2.6.24.1 I could keep running long enough to recompile it > >> with the usual kilohertz tick, so ATM I'm on one of the older 2.6.23 > >> kernels from the F8 repo's, and kde is 3.5.9 > >> > >> Anyway, kmail (and kontact but I don't use it) is now doing a nearly > >> instant Signal 11. The kmail.kcrash report sort of points a finger at > >> libkmailprivate.so, but I've stopped X, had yum rip out kdepim and > >> kdepim-libs, and then re-install them with no effect on the crash. > >> > >> So here is the kmail.kcrash text: > >> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". > >> (no debugging symbols found) > >> [snip many lines oof this] > >> (no debugging symbols found) > >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > >> [New Thread -1208654128 (LWP 25523)] > >> (no debugging symbols found) > >> [snip many more lines] > >> (no debugging symbols found) > > > >This means that you should install the corresponding -debuginfo rpms to > >fill in the missing details in the backtrace. > > > Where might those be found?, yum shows nothing. In the [fedora-debuginfo] repo, and you need not enable that one, because there are tools to install them: $ rpm -qf $(which debuginfo-install) yum-utils-1.1.11-1.fc8 The Wiki has additional information about them and backtraces: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces > How can I force an fsck on /dev/VolGroupVol00 on the next boot? Add "forcefsck" to the command line. > >Do you realise that it could be a segfault caused by corrupted input data > >and not by corrupted packages? Depending on what libkmailprivate does in > >this area of the code, it could be that it doesn't verify the input data > >enough as would be necessary to prevent it from crashing. > > Should I, when things settle, file a bugzilla against libkmailprivate.so? Or > whatever it is that manages the .index files? In the KDE bug tracker, yes. It's an error condition that ought to be handled IMO. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
