Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources When trying to add a contact from an opened email kmail freezes and the process starts using more CPU than usual until I close it. Kontact has the same behavior too. Observations: 1. Akonadi is started and I have as Address Books the : Akonadi Compatibility Resource (empty) and a local VCF file (which contains my addresses). 2. I have also tried with only one of these resources active at a time, but it's the same thing.
I can confirm this behaviour. After right clicking on the email address and clicking on add to ..., KMail freezes on my system too.
I found a workaround: I think the problem actually lies with Akonadi because I went to the system settings and set the local VCF file as the Standard Contacts resource, everything goes well. (systemsettings - Advanced - KDE Resources - Contacts)
Unfortunately this fix didn't work for me. Kmail does freeze when I try to add someone to the address book. In the system settings (advanced, KDE Resources, Contacts) I set the local file (which is a VCF file) as the standard contacts resource. I also disabled the check box for Akonadi. Kmail still freezes however.
Hey good news! This bug resolved itself when I upgraded my KDE to the latest beta version. I would say that whatever is causing this problem, they are probably already fixing it somewhere else.
Fixed by: SVN commit 899878 by krake: Keep track of which collections have already been loaded during asyncLoad so we know when to emit loadingFinished()
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