Bug 299740

Summary:	Entries made in an Address Book in KDE Kontact disappear after the system is shut down and started later
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	K. A. Sayeed <sayeed.ka>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	critical	CC:	sayeed.ka, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description K. A. Sayeed 2012-05-10 13:07:21 UTC

1. An entry made in the Address Book of the KDE Kontact and committed is no longer found after the system was shut down and started later.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a contact entry in an Address book of KDE Kontact.
2. Commit the entry.
3. Shut down the computer system.
5. Start the computer system.
6. Check the address book for the contact entry that was previously made.
Actual Results:  
1. Some times the contact entry disappears.

Expected Results:  
1. Any contact that has been made and commited should always be in the Address book. 

1. The KDE Kontact application in question was installed by the Kubuntu 12.04 installer.

Comment 1 K. A. Sayeed 2012-05-10 14:03:21 UTC

1. On further examination, it was found that this problem (the failure to retain information entered in the Address Book after shutdown and starting the system later) HAPPENS EVERY TIME.

2. Furthermore, it happens after a duplicate entry in the address book was created using the "Copy Contact" and "Paste" feature and then edited to create an entirely different entry. The edited contact disappears after the system is shut down and then started again.

3. These and other failures of KDE Kontact began to occur after the adoption of the Akonadi architecture. Version 4.3.2. of the KDE Kontact, which was the version before the Akonadi architecture was adopted was quite reliable, stable, richer in features, and never had any of these failures.

Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2012-10-13 10:06:03 UTC

Can't reproduce it here, sounds more like the same issue you have with copying contacts in the same folder, which looks like a broken setup.