[Mageia-discuss] KDEPIM now totally lost

[Balcaen John]

Le samedi 21 juillet 2012 12:16:13 Anne Wilson a écrit :
> 
> On Thursday I opened kaddressbook (4.8.2-3.mga2), only to find a blank
> page.  Going to System Settings > Personal I discovered that my
> address accounts had disappeared, so I re-created them, one pointing
> to the old std.vcf file, and one to ~/.local/share/contacts.  I find
> that they are marked read-only, and I can't change that - the checkbox
> appears to clear, but when saved it is still read-only.
> 
> Since then I have discovered that kmail also is blank.  The resources
> are still there, and correct, but all attempts to get them to display
> in kmail have failed.  I also get notices that kmail is off-line, but
> again that can't be changed.
Just in case did you check that akonadi was running/responding ?
Somehow kadressbook & kmail should have prompted about non running akonadi.
Regarding the off-line status did you eventually installed for example 
networkmanager  without having it running/managing your network ?
Did you have the same issue with another kde's network application ? ( like 
kopete for example) ?
(It could be a solid issue eventually)

> 
> Up to now Kontact has been somewhat troublesome, but usable when I
> needed it, but something is terribly wrong this time,  I have checked
> ownerships and permissions, just in case, and everything else I can
> think of.  Is this the end of the line for Kontact, or something
> changed in my system without my knowledge?
I'm currently waiting for Qt validation by QA to push KDE 4.8.4 [1] on 
updates/testing  (which came with a lot of fix for kdepim, some of them picked 
up from 4.8.5). 
However it's also possible that i'll simply push 4.8.5 since 4.8.5 should be 
release (or at least tagged) by the end of July.


Regards,

[1] https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6656
Currently we're only missing the i586 validation if i'm not wrong.


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Balcaen John