Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 15:29:28
Message-Id: 556885B9.1080801@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe. by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >
4 >> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally
5 >> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0)
6 >> was not being started.
7 >>
8 >> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and
9 >> re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied the
10 >> .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did not, and
11 >> so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet though.
12 > Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it instead of
13 > creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably let it run
14 > overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your messages.
15
16 What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform
17 any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any
18 measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth of the CPU and
19 disk bandwidth consumed by this missfeature?
20
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22 --
23 IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
24
25 Powers are not rights.

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Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe. Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>