Beware of KDEPIM 4.4.93 in kde-unstable

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday, September 06, 2010 11:18:02 am José Matos wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2010 12:50:21 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Indeed.  kde-unstable is precisely that.  Now that kde-4.5.x is in kde-
> > testing, if that's all you want, that's all you should be using.  That
> > should be safe.  kde-unstable sometimes isn't.
> > 
> > My sincere apologies if that wasn't entirely clear before and caught
> > folks by surprise.
> > 
> > -- Rex
> 
> I had updated by mistake, I was in doing several jobs at the same time and
> did not notice that the kdepim* packages were among the updates, even
> though I remembered your note.
> 
> I have 9 dimap accounts configured. The migration process did not went
> well, for those accounts that are based on google.mail it worked but some
> other that work now it failled.
> 
> Even after the migration process was completed kmail would not appear.
> Recalling kmail again would import again some of the failled accounts in to
> a local archive. The final result was that I had several copies of some of
> the accounts and I has not able to remove them from akonadi.
> 
> As others have noted previously for large volumes of email the system
> becomes really slow, the memory used is so large that the swap is used and
> then no work is done.
> 
> Several quirks from the process, akonadi throws several pop-ups if some
> message is not well downloaded. This is disastrous, you can end with more
> than 300 pop-ups open. Clearly a pop-up to tell such a trivial thing is
> not a solution.
> 
> During the migration process I got messages like:
> Error while creating item: Unknown error. (NO Unable to write item changes
> into the database)
> 
> The system was unusable at the end so I had to downgrade to the previous
> version.
> 
> Due to all the work that was done to insure that a downgrade works I had no
> problem reverting to the previous version. (I had to reset the
> ~/.local/share/akonadi directory because the previous one had 14 GB, and
> akonadi would take long time to start)

Would be great to forward this experience to upstream developers.

R. 

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