KAddressBook problem

[Timothy Murphy]

Martin Kho wrote:

>> >> My problem is that whenever I start KMail(2) under Fedora-16
>> >> I get the error message "Failed to fetch the resource collection."
>> >> 
>> >> Many other people have reported this,
>> >> but I have seen no method suggested for solving the problem.

>> > Did you do a upgrade sometime? Maybe the following discussion can help
>> > you. See [1].
>> 
>> Thanks for the response.
>> However, this was a clean installation of Fedora-16, not an upgrade.
>> 
>> I am however sharing /home with Fedora-15, which may be relevant,
>> though the many people complaining about this error message
>> have not mentioned that.

> Can't it be a permissions - related - problem UID = 500 in Fedora 15 and
> UID = 1000 in Fedora 16?

I don't think so.
I have to change the permissions before I change from F-15 to F-16,
or vice versa.

Also, as I mentioned, many people seem to have this problem
without running both F-15 and F-16 with the same /home .


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