Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:49 +0100 | From | "Tom Spink" <> | Subject | Re: Something odd in knail from 3.5.9 on F8 |
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2008/5/25 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>: > On Sunday 25 May 2008, Tom Spink wrote: >>2008/5/25 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> Yesterday I needed to email a patch file I had just generated to the >>> maintainer of the OS for a "legacy" computer, so I fired up the new mail >>> by clicking on his name in a previous email, wrote a short msg and tried >>> to attach the patch. But regardless of how many times I backed out of the >>> directory & then went back in, the directory listing I was being shown was >>> exactly as it had existed about 36 hours ago. No new files could be seen. >>> So I could not attach it, nor include it as text in that msg. >>> . >>> After I had sent the msg, I shut kmail down using its quit button, gave it >>> 30 secs to clean up and disappear from the htop list, then restarted it, >>> at which point the newer and missing files were then visible and I sent >>> the patch using the exact same procedure. >>> >>> Currently running locally built 2.6.26-rc2 for a kernel. So which >>> direction do I point the accusatory finger here folks? >> >>Hi Gene, >> >>Are you able to reproduce the problem? Were you able to view the >>"real" contents of the directory in, say, a terminal (with ls) or >>Konqueror (or whatever you prefer), while KMail was acting up? >> > Yes, ls or ls -l displayed them correctly in several other terminal shells, > while kmail couldn't see them. But, kmail had not looked at that directory > since launching it at the last bootup till then, so I can't quite bring myself > to believe it was looking at old cached info, that was its first look there > since bootup a day before. > > And now of course it works. Same kernel, same kmail. Go figure, but I think it > will take some of that new-fangled math to make 2+2=4 in this case. :-\
Heh, cool. I guess it's some weird "KDE-caching" Heisenbug. Although I'm no KDE expert at all, and don't know how their file browsers work.
> Thanks Tom.
No problem.
> Cheers, Gene
-- Tom Spink
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