[Users] Claws freezing when composing e-mail replies

[edwardp at gmx.com]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:48:13 +0100
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:40:29 -0400
> <edwardp at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:21:24 -0400
> > <edwardp at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Suffered another crash/freeze with 'top' showing Claws using 99%
> > > CPU, requiring reboot of system again.
> > >
> > > I turned off the non-blocking SSL/TLS in the accounts (Yahoo/AOL)
> > > and will try that. The crashes/freezes are occurring when replying
> > > to an e-mail in a Yahoo/AOL account (IMAP).
> > >
> > > If it does this again, I can always run it with --debug and see if
> > > it will save a log. Not sure else what to try...
> >
> > Crashed again, requiring another system reboot. As soon as I remove
> > quoted text in the reply, that is when it crashes. This can't go
> > on.
>
> Note that a freeze is not a crash. The two words refer to different
> situations. When a program freezes (or even if it doesn't) you should
> always be able to kill it from the command line. If a plain
>  'kill <pid>' doesn't work then try 'kill -9 <pid>'.
>
> Mostly it's also possible to kill things using the GUI too - click the
> close box that is usually at the top-right of the window border, and
> wait. After some seconds it should prompt you, saying that the process
> isn't responding and do you want to kill it anyway?

And that occurred a couple of times, when I selected to end/kill it, it
did nothing after a minute or so, still had to powerdown.

I guess a debug log will not help then.

Trying the 'kill' command on the job number (did not know about the -9
flag) and trying to kill the job within top, both didn't work.

Once I highlighted some text to remove, then hit BACKSPACE, that's when
it froze each time.