weird artifact appearing in my upper right screen

[Colin J Thomson - G6AVK]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 11:13:50 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2009 11:08:42 Clive Messer wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 Feb 2009 09:54:55 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > > Did you update qt, akonadi, pim etc?
> > > I did and it caused a terrible amount of problems (yes I know its all
> > > in unstable) but normally things work well.
> > > Kontact crashing on startup (kmail crashing) , kded4 eating up 80% CPU,
> > > Kmail would run outside of Kontact but no preview in Kmails message
> > > window, akonadi failing to start (dbus errors) etc.
> > >
> > > Even just updating akonadi caused problems :(
> > >
> > > *Sorry* but I cannot debug this as this is my main machine and had to
> > > get it back to how it was, I use akonadi (kabc) so maybe that caused me
> > > more grief than expected.
> > >
> > > Rolled back to this now:
> > >
> > > qt-4.4.3
> > > akonadi-1.1.1-1
> > > kdepim-4.2.0-2
> >
> > Akonadi wouldn't start for me after updating f10 from
> > kde-redhat-unstable. I think this was due to the change to its mysql db
> > size. Removing it (.local/share/akonadi/) solved that. It was re-created
> > and has been working fine since.
>
> OK thanks Clive, if I get time I'll try the latest Akonadi *only* again
> after shifting .local/share/akonadi/ out of the way.

Update:
I stopped Akonadi and closed down Kontact, moved .local/share/akonadi/ out of 
the way then installed the latest akonadi.i386 0:1.1.1-3
Restarted Akonadi (restart most likely not needed) and Kontact and all is well 
so far.

Thanks Clive,

Colin
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