kontact does not start with 4.4RC3

[Paul Scott]

This workaround might have worked for me. I followed it, except I
didn't have a Special Occasion entry in my
~/.kde/share/config/korganizerrc file.
It didn't work immediately though. I then logged out after creating a
new user to test the idea a new user might not be affected. The new
user was affected just the same as my usual user account. When I
logged back in again to my usual account, kontact started perfectly.

It sure seems to be a weird problem that seems difficult to track
down. I recommend trying the suggestion below, with a logout/login as
a last step. It might work.

Cheers,
Paul.

On 11 February 2010 07:49, Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> OK... Current Bug Reports. A workaround follows....
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563789
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218369
>
> One thing to note: On the initial startup of Kontact Akonadi seems to freeze.
> All kontact related process and akonadi related process need to be killed and
> then from a console or the run command, one needs to run akonadiconsole to get
> things to work with the following procedure.
>
> Please refer to:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218369
>
> It would seem that if one were to go to:
>
>    ~/.kde/share/config/kontact_summary.rc
>
> and remove the
>
>    kontact_specialdatesplugin
>
> entry. Also...
>
> in:
>
>    ~/.kde/share/config/korganizerrc
>
> I removed the :
>
>   Special Occasion
>
> entry
>
> After that ... Everything seemed to work.
>
> Eli
>
>
> On Wednesday 10 February 2010 22:32:39 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> This seems to be true also with build
>>
>> epimlibs-devel-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepim-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepim-runtime-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.i686
>> kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.i686
>> kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepim-libs-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64
>> kdepim-runtime-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>>
>> Quoting Paul Scott <paulsscott at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > It still isn't working in 4.4.0-1:
>> >
>> > % kmail
>> > <unknown program name>(15694)/: Communication problem with  "kmail" ,
>> > it probably crashed.
>> > Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not
>> > receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did
>> > not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
>> > the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "
>> >
>> > Tried, kontackt, kmail, kaddressbook, korganizer.
>> >
>> > With the following installed this morning:
>> >
>> > kdepimlibs-devel-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepim-runtime-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepim-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepim-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepimlibs-debuginfo-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepim-debuginfo-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> > kdepim-runtime-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Paul.
>> >
>> > On 9 February 2010 16:54, Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> Dne Pá 5. února 2010 10:53:24 Christos Lazaridis napsal(a):
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> I decided to give 4.4 a try and it does feel better than the beta that
>> >>> I tried and made me go back to 4.3 but I cannot get kontact to work
>> >>> for me. kmail, kaddressbook, korganizer etc all work fine standalone
>> >>> but kontact refuses to start.
>> >>>
>> >>> I made sure that akonadi is running before starting it up, removed
>> >>>  kontactrc
>> >>>
>> >>> and .kde/share/apps/kontact and I get messages like these in the
> console:
>> >>> > <unknown program name>(2118)/: Communication problem with  "kontact"
>> >>> > , it probably crashed. Error message was:
>> >>> > "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply"
>> >>> >
>> >>> > : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
>> >>> >
>> >>> > application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
>> >>> > blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
>> >>> > connection was broken." "
>> >>> >
>> >>> > kontact(2119)/khtml (caret) DOM::Selection::moveTo: Selection[
>> >>> > Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0
>> >>> > "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) 1 ] Position( 0x0 "null" : 0
>> >>> > ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 )
>> >>>
>> >>> ideas?
>> >>>
>> >>> thanks,
>> >>>   Christos.
>> >>
>> >> Known problem, our KDE will have this patched.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com>
>> >> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
>> >> KDE developer <lukas at kde.org>
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