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On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> >> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally |
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> >> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) |
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> >> was not being started. |
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> >> |
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> >> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and |
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> >> re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied |
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> >> the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did |
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> >> not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet |
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> >> though. |
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> > |
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> > Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it |
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> > instead of creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably |
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> > let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your |
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> > messages. |
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> What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform |
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> any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any |
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> measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth of the CPU and |
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> disk bandwidth consumed by this missfeature? |
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I think you're preaching to the converted here. I don't think you'll find |
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many advocates in this M/L who support the KDE4 desktop design decision as a |
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sound architectural choice for your average Linux user. I think they were |
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trying to market a desktop for the enterprise and were following Gnome's |
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approach of semantic content searches. |
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Other than the odd bug here and there I was perfectly happy with KDE3 and |
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Kmail1 (still using with kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.11.1-r1). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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