kmail dying and killing my system - akonadi? or nepomuk? issue?

[Dave Stevens]

On Friday 26 February 2010 02:46:50 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 05:52:41 Dave Stevens wrote:
> > A couple of days ago I was using my F11 gnome system where I use kmail
> > as pop client and ran some ordinary updates (including several kde
> > updates) from the usual Fedora repo. Subsequently I got progressively
> > slower and slower kmail and then my whole system bogged.
> > 
> > The current situation is that kmail is totally unusable, and as soon
> > as I fire it up my whole system is on the verge of unusability.
> > 
> > My mail is tied up in kmail boxes that I now cannot access. I of
> > course have work in progress that I can't get at.
> > 
> > There was a pretty good thread on this topic on the fedora-list and it
> > was suggested that people on this list might have more info.
> > 
> > So what I think is happening is that somehow akonadi and/or nepomuk
> > are fried, giving extremely slow (glacial) performance for programs
> > that depend on them. I was able to see from a nepomuk failure message
> > a link to a kde site where there were instructions for a workaround.
> > This helped a bit and I will no doubt need to find those instructions
> > again and get familiar with the process, because the fix is transient.
> > For unrelated reasons I've had to reboot and every time I do I'm back
> > in glacial terrain.
> > 
> > Can anyone (PLEASE) suggest a decent fix or provide more information
> > about this issue?
> 
> First, yesterday I posted a message entitled "More nepomuk/kmail problems
> and workarounds" - did you read that? 


no, I have been subscribed only to the fedora-list and it was in consequence 
of a suggestion I saw there that I have subscribed to this list. I'll go into 
the archive and read your post now, thanks.

> I'm happy to report, though, that
> the non- starting of kontact was cleared yesterday after an update,
> although it's not obvious which updated package cleared the blockage.
> 
> The page that has all the issues I've seen so far, and the workarounds (not
> sure whether I added yesterday's yet)  would be
> http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
> 
> Anne

thanks again,

Dave