Kmail hang, easier way to fix?

[Matt Alexander]

Does a killall -9 kmail stop it?

What distro/version/kde are you running?


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Hello all:
> 	I've been using KMail for over a year now, and I've been very happy with it.
>  But lately it's started causing me problems.  Occasionally when I exit the
> application, and then return, and the new one doesn't start.  When I do a "ps
> -a" I find that there's a Kmail process marked "D"; which I understand to
> mean "uniterruptable sleep" or "waiting for I/O." This process is totally
> unkillable, even as root.  Logging out and logging back in (which always
> worked in the past for me when Netscape would hang) doesn't work.  I've
> actually had to reboot the system (Noooo!!  That was why I'm migrating away
> from Windows!)  Strangely enough, the last time I rebooted (just now) my
> inbox and trash folders were mysteriously empty.   Only "sent-mail" was still
> there, which is good, because I've been too lazy to copy peoples' addreses
> into my address book (guess I should do that.)  Anyway, does anyone know of a
> more graceful way to restart Kmail when it hangs?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
> Custom Software Development
> User Interface Design / Automation / Client-Server / Data Acquisition
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