kontact does not start with 4.4RC3

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Thu Feb 11 09:24:10 UTC 2010


Will do Paul.

I will try the login/ logout suggestion when I get home from work. and  
thanks for the confirmation.

Eli

Quoting Paul Scott <paulsscott at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>> >> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
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