On Monday 28 December 2009 17:26:43 Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> ...
Just a wild guess, since Kontakt incorporates the addressbook, kmail,
korganizer et al.
Try starting kaddressbook alone and select the addressbook to use. By
default, this appears to be an akonadi resource, which caused kaddressbook
to crash (likely because I had not configured it). Since I don't use
akonadi and likely won't until a year or two from now, and since I don't
have any addresses in this unused akonadi resource, there is no point in
having an akonadi address resource, so I deleted it.
Then, since all my addresses are in a traditional vcf file, I asked
kaddressbook to open a different addressbook, namely the real vcf
addressbook.
Once done, kaddressbook now started up without crashing. Since kmail and
kontakt make use of the addressbook in kaddressbook, this could (?) be a
problem.
Hi, Petrus. I don't think it's the same problem. However, I resolved to
take
a look.At this point I realised that I could no longer run any of the
applications stand-alone. I hunted for lock files, found an odd one and
removed it. No difference. Totally disabled selinux - no difference.
Feeling convinced that the problem was with kmail itself I decided to go with
my instincts and change the target for the akonadi resource for local mail.
Akonadi started up as though there had never been a problem. A few seconds
later I got a crash report from kontact. I asked it to re-start, and here it
is. So far, at least, everything is working. I guess akonadi had got its
knickers in a twist when it couldn't find that Local folder it was expecting.
If all remains well tomorrow I'll file a bug report.
Anne
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