On Monday 14 November 2011 16:24:33 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Martin Kho wrote:
>> My problem is that whenever I start KMail(2) under Fedora-16
>> I get the error message "Failed to fetch the resource collection."
>>
>> Many other people have reported this,
>> but I have seen no method suggested for solving the problem.
>>
>> My impression is that this may just be a problem
>> with the error message persisting,
>> since I can read my email messages (including new messages)
>> behind the error message.
>> However, I cannot send messages.
>>
>> As soon as I click the OK in the error message KMail(2) exits.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestion how to cure this problem
>> I shall be very grateful.
>
> Did you do a upgrade sometime? Maybe the following discussion can help
> you. See [1].
Thanks for the response.
However, this was a clean installation of Fedora-16, not an upgrade.
I am however sharing /home with Fedora-15, which may be relevant,
though the many people complaining about this error message
have not mentioned that.
Hi Timothy,
Can't it be a permissions - related - problem UID = 500 in Fedora 15 and UID =
1000 in Fedora 16?
Martin Kho