KAddressBook problem

[Martin Kho]

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