This is a sudden thing. I haven't changed anything on my system. Didn't add any software. Whenever I try to start kmail (clicking on the icon), it attempts to launch and then dies. I've tried it via commandline and get this error:
[code:1]*** KMail is already running with PID 972 on host mittens
ERROR: Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed.
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When I check ps aux, there's nothing there. In fact, there is no visible PID 972 (oddly enough this PID is the same everytime even after reboots). I'm a little frustrated because I kinda like it.
My configuration is Slack 9.1 with a 2.4.24 kernel, KDE 3.2 and Kmail 1.6. This particular issue stopped working last Friday so it's been working fine under this kernel for about 3 months. Right now, this is the only portion of KDE that seems to be "burping".
If anyone has any ideas (I've tried fsck just in case but that found no errors).