Kmail hang, easier way to fix?

[Vaughn Treude]

I didn't realize you could do a "killall" without killing everything; I 
thought that was just for shutdown.  This particular system is running 
Mandrake 8.0 and KDE 2.1.1.

Thanks,
Vaughn

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 19:28, you wrote:
> 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.
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