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On Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 00:40:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Before, I beginning, I need dox, not solutions :-) |
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> I'm having the devil's own time with kdepim after upgrading to 4.6.0. |
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> Apart from the calendar (more on this later), everything seemed fine. |
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> Several kontact restarts and several reboots later it was still fine. |
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> Then suddenly kmail decided to throw away all my filters after #11 - |
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> they simply get removed from kmail2rc silently and the file is |
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> rewritten when kmail closes. I recreated the filters, and today it |
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> chucked everything away. Twice. Seriously, I'm now getting hugely |
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> pissed off. I can add the filters back in from a backup copy, but they |
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> still get discarded. |
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> Today, kmail hung while accessing my Exchange account over IMAP. The |
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> folder list showed 100+ unread mails, but none of them were in the |
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> view pane. Deleting that account and recreating it brought everything |
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> back. |
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> The calendar in korganizer just does not work. Period. It is empty. |
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> But all the todos in it are listed in the Kontact summary view! An |
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> invite is displayed as raw ical data, missing the usual Accept|Reject| |
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> etc links. And the calendar is apparently read-only: right-click on a |
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> time-slot gives a greyed-out context menu so I can't select "Add |
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> event" |
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> My pim config has come a long ways, from somewhere early in the 3- |
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> series and just got updated every time. I tried a kdepim-4.6 beta a |
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> while ago but that was not a happy experience so went back to 4.4, and |
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> am now back at 4.6. I strongly suspect a very unhappy outdated config, |
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> but the apps themselves are not helping to nail it down. |
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> There's nothing in .xsession-errors that gives a clue, nothing on the |
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> console with the appropriate kdebug options set, and lots of google |
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> searches have not revealed any kind of config validation script. |
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> If any of you fine folks can point me at a link containing useful |
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> debugging techniques for kdepim, this here crotchy old sysadmin will |
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> be eternally grateful. I might even DHL some cookies as a token of |
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> gratitude :-) |
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Are you sure that your mysql has not gone awry? |
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I'm running KDE4.6.3 stable and Kmail 1.12.7 for a couple of weeks now on |
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three machines and I have not noticed any problems. On two of them I use |
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sqlite3. I am not using Kontact/Calendar or other kdepim apps much - only |
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when I want to look at a date - with no problems so far. |
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If anything kde4.6 is more stable here than kde4.4! |
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Are your akonadi logs clear of any errors? Your mysql logs? |
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If you are using kdm (instead of startx) and mysql happens to fail at the |
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start you are probably none the wiser about it, because kdm has kicked in by |
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then and you are looking at a login screen. Something like this could screw |
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things up. |
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Also, if you forget to run mysql_upgrade after you updated/upgraded mysql |
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things could break with it. |
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If none of the above are the causes then it might be some esoteric setting in |
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your config files that does not translate across to the latest versions - but |
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that seems unlikely. I would have thought that it would be simply ignored, |
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rather than screw up your email accounts/calendar. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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