On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:02:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Mick <[email protected]> wrote :
> > On Monday, 10 September 2018 09:49:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Hello list,
[snip ...]

> > > It was mostly full of repetitions of this:
> > >   [warn] epoll_wait: Bad file descriptor

The epoll API performs the task of waiting for some I/O event on a file 
descriptor, blocking the thread if no events are yet available.  I don't know 
if the message "Bad file descriptor" is caused by your cache of file 
descriptors containing some file descriptor which is no longer available (it 
was closed by a subsequent event), but the cache has not been refreshed to 
this effect.  TBH this is well above my V limited understanding of kernel and 
memory processing.  It may have something to do with bad memory, bad 
programming of some application which is using the epoll API (most likely), or 
buggy kernel.


> > > I didn't have the patience to search backwards to find the last entry
> > before
> > > those, so I can't be certain what process was spamming me; I just have
> > > to assume it was sddm, since that's whose directory the log was in.
> 
> Update: I had another Konsole open yesterday, from which I'd last issued an
> akonadictl restart command. Those warnings were scrolling by faster that I
> could read them.

You may want to close your kmail and run akonadictl in this fashion:

pkill kmail
akonadictl stop
akonadictl start
akonadictl fsck
akonadictl vacuum

waiting between each step until the messages printed on the terminal stop.

Finally restart kmail and hopefully your kmail/akonadi will behave normally 
again.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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