KDL as soon as Deskbar and desktop appear

[Kev]

I'm not sure if this is related, but something strange happened during my last successful boot on my Haiku partition. I sent an e-mail like normal, just a reply, no attachments. Then, every time the mail daemon would check for mail (every x minutes or when I used the context menu on the replicant) it would bring up the status bar sending an e-mail, and send it again. (Well, I haven't heard back yet, but I'm tentatively assuming it's the last one that it was sending repeatedly.)

Then, I noticed that even though I'd read all my messages, the replicant context menu always said that I had one new message. I opened the query, and tried a few times to mark the message as read, both by opening the e-mail and using the close->leave as read, and right clicking the item in the query results and choosing mark as read. Nothing made it go away, so I thought I'd reboot.

Now, every time I reboot, a split second after the Deskbar and desktop show up, I'm KDL'd. I can't remember the error message so I'll have to update later with that, but anyway, I'm on haiku-nightly-hrev33859-x86gcc2hybrid and hadn't had any problems, using it every day since the day that one was released.

[anevilyak]

It's not completely outside the realm of possibility that you have filesystem corruption going on, but without the panic message and backtrace there really isn't much to go off here.

[Kev]

That common_read_link line is the one I was replying to (or maybe it's my reply, since, it was actually a forward and it doesn't say that on that line either. Anyway, same thread.)

[axeld]

Please add images as attachments instead of putting it somewhere else.

[Kev]

BTW, I forgot to mention I ran chkbfs on each of my partitions from BeOS and none of them reported errors.

Re: attachments, I couldn't seem to get the file small enough for the limits imposed while still being able to read the text in it. So that was the only way I could think of to do it. Besides...less burden on your servers, right?

If there's nothing else I can try, I'd like to upgrade to the latest nightly so there's a chance I can be using Haiku again...please advise...

[anevilyak]

R5's chkbfs really doesn't check/fix all that much except block allocation mismatches, it can't/won't try to handle more complex problems...if you can boot a Haiku Live CD you could try running checkfs on the Haiku partitions from there though.

[Kev]

Unfortunately, I don't have one. Is there anything I can do on bootup or from R5, or should I just upgrade?

[axeld]

This seems to be just a bug in BFS (with long symlinks) - this won't go away by running checkfs, I'm afraid :-)

[scottmc]

Do you still have this issue or can we assume that this has been fixed in the past 3 years?

[Kev]

I haven't been using Haiku for e-mail since I had some data loss issues a few years ago. And also kind of left IT for a while. Since then I've written over my Haiku system with Alpha 4.1, so after doing that I'm not sure how to try to reproduce it. Maybe Axel can comment having had a better idea of what the bug actually was?

[axeld]

I've pretty much forgotten about this one. Since I also have no recollection of having fixed it, let's just keep the ticket open for now.

[Kev]

Unfortunately I can't test it now, since Gmail POP access is currently unsupported by Haiku. But if/when that works again I'll give it a shot.

[axeld]

Do you still have that image by any chance? I'd like to look into it, but it's hard without actually seeing the KDL (that's why I asked for an attachment; not that I knew that it would take forever until I would look at it).

[axeld]

It might actually be a duplicate of #5282, in which case it would have been fixed in the mean time.

[waddlesplash]

Presuming fixed, then. Please open a new ticket if it's still around.