[Bug 988866] [NEW] akonadi_mailfilter_agent eats 100% CPU and RAM and then crashes

[Scott Kitterman]

Public bug reported:

If the user's agent_config_akonadi_mailfilter_agent_changes.dat gets
corrupted, the mailfilter_agent becomes unusable.  There is, however, a
way to recover from this.

RELEASE NOTE:

The new version of the KDE PIM component Kmail in 12.04 introduced a new
element to handle mail filtering.  In some cases the configuration
information for this element, akonadi_mailfilter_agent, can get
corrupted.  If this happens, the akonadi_mailfilter_agent will stop
filtering mail (e.g. messages already sent stay in the outbox) and start
to consume large amounts of CPU and RAM.  Enough that the entire system
may become sluggish.  Eventually it usually crashes (and will crash
again if restarted).  In order to fix this problem, the corrupt
configuration file has to be removed (it will be automatically
regenerated when things are started again).  To accomplish this do the
following steps:

1.  open a terminal window (using konsole for Kubuntu, other applications for other flavors).
2. cd ~/.config/akonadi
3. akonadictl stop
4. wait until you get a notification that akonadi is fully stopped
5. rm agent_config_akonadi_mailfilter_agent_changes.dat (this removes the corrupt file)
6. akonadictl start

That should restore correct behavior

** Affects: kdepim
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: ubuntu-release-notes
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #298626
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298626

** Also affects: kdepim via
   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298626
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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