kmail & 4.6.1 ate my mail... :-)

Paul Scott paulsscott at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 11:17:45 UTC 2011


Hi

After upgrading to 4.6.1 this morning I have problems with Kontact/Kmail.

I have commented on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693177
(comment 9,10,12)

My first problem was with the "Akondai progress bar" was stuck
bouncing left to right and back. Kontact didn't start.

I moved ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi, and that first
the Akonadi startup problem but then I couldn't send email. The send
button highlighted but then the program completely hung. It needed a
kill -9 to remove it.

I tried a clean kmail installation (moved all the kmail/kontact
directories and files from .kde/share/apps and .kde/share/config but I
still had the same problem.

I had been been using akonadi-googledata-1.0.1-1.fc13.i686 from
tomasj's repository so I removed that. That didn't resolve the
problem.

Next I looked at Akonadi (google data was removed) and I looked at the
server configuration. I ran a test and there were lots of errors
including MySQL server not found etc. I stopped the Akonadi server and
restarted, re-ran the test and they were now all passed except
"Previous Akonadi server error log not found".

Suddenly a "hanging kmail send" which was in the background suddenly
jumped into life and the mail was sent.

I'm not reimporting my folders to the new structure and we'll see if
there are any further problems.

It seems to me that Akonadi is the part at fault here and that moving
away ~/.config/akonadi and
~/.local/share/akonadi doesn't solve the problem completely.

Cheers,
Paul.

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Paul Scott
paulsscott at gmail.com


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