Compact folders reboots computer
Categories
(Thunderbird :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: m.roth, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Steps to reproduce:
Compact folders.
Running AlmaLinux 9.4. 16G RAM. Core I-7 (and it happened with Cord I-3)
Inbox is 1.8G.
This has been happening since you jumped from version about 68. You appear to be trying to do ALL folders in memory.
Actual results:
My system reboots partway through compact folders.
This has been happening since you jumped from version about 68. You appear to be trying to do ALL folders in memory.
Expected results:
Folders compacted.
Right-clicked on inbox, partially through compaction, rebooted computer.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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Compact is rewritten in version 128. Please post your results with that version.
I run Almalinux, and 115 is the latest.
I tried installing with flatpak. a) it did not look for an existing installation. b) I didn't see where I could tell it where to find the existing folders.
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Comment 4•1 year ago
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Comment 5•1 year ago
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Compact is certainly not all in memory.
If the computer reboots due to an application error (assuming there's a bug with that), that would be strange. At worst, it could crash Thunderbird, but not the OS.
I agree, it is strange, unless someone did some nasty coding, to speed things up (cf M$ and Word on Macs, 20 years ago). However, this happened on my last rebuild of my system (Core 3), and it's happening with my current, a Core 7 and a new mother board.
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Comment 7•1 year ago
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At this point, we'd need confirmation that it also fails with 128 before investigating further.
This has been happening since you jumped from version about 68.
So this happened in other versions prior to 115?
Yes, I believe so. Actually, it started failing, and there was a major update (but around the same time I tried making my Inbox smaller by moving old emails to another folder. It stopped, then started again.
Ok, folks, I did my monthly update to Linux. Then, once thunderbird was up, I did an explicit compact folders, which took a long time, given it hasn't been able to before. We've got unicorns here - it successfully compacted all almost 2g of my inbox with no reboot.
Feel free to consider this closed, and thanks.
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Updated•1 year ago
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