KAddressBook problem

[Martin Kho]

On Monday 14 November 2011 21:26:52 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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 .

Hi Timothy,

Okay, just one more try :-) Did you see the following post [1]?

Hope this helps as a workaround. Guy-kde seems to be working on this bug since 
Jul 10, 2011.

Martin Kho


[1] http://old.nabble.com/KMail2-problem-at-startup-to32030916.html#a32030916