Peculiar behaviour of akonadi

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 21:07:55 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> 2010/4/20 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:18:38 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> >> 2010/4/20 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> >> > Among the problems I'm having with F13 is the very strange behaviour
> >> > of akonadi.  I had been running kontact earlier, and shut it down.
> >> >  While trying to troubleshoot this problem I've used System Activity
> >> > Monitor to close the left-behind threads, I've tried logging out to
> >> > clear any left-overs, and I've even rebooted.  The situation now is
> >> > this:
> >> > 
> >> > A kontact tab sits in my taskbar - but I can't access kontact.  The
> >> > 'Starting Akonadi server....' progress bar has been running back and
> >> > forth for several minutes.  Nepomuk is running, Strigi isn't.
> >> > 
> >> > $ akonadictl status
> >> > Akonadi Control: running
> >> > Akonadi Server: running
> >> > Akonadi Server Search Support: available (backend: Virtuoso)
> >> > 
> >> > This is after an 'akonadictl stop' and 'akonadictl start'.
> >> 
> >> Does the Kontact GUI appear if you run:
> >> qdbus org.kde.kontact /kontact/MainWindow_1
> >> com.trolltech.Qt.QWidget.show
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the Akonadi progress bar is still whizzing away, and I
> > can't do anything inside the main kontact window :-(
> 
> As expected. I fixed it permanently by, moving the old configs (in
> .kde/share/config) away in my user account, log in to my old user
> account, starting kontact once and cp the rest of the not fresh
> created configs back. I diffed the old stuff against the new stuff,
> but to be honest it was way to much output for my spare time to find
> the culprit. So, sorry, that's all help i can offer.

It's enough to get me working again, thanks.  I renamed the config folder, 
then when everything worked I just pulled in the necessary email settings 
configs (important time saver :-) ) and akregator feed configs.  I set up the 
akonadi addressbook resource from scratch, and all seems to be well.  Of 
course I'll have to re-do any other settings, but they are less important than 
having kontact working again :-)

I still have signing and encrypting to sort out, but I'm sure I'll find the 
problem soon.

Thanks again

Anne
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