Bug 331165

Summary:	autostart fails
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	thomas
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	dvratil
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description thomas 2014-02-15 22:31:05 UTC

Following the userbase suggestion on http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Disabling_the_Akonadi_subsystem
and changing StartServer=false
I start kmail and it fails to start akonadi.

Seems that the boolean not only disables start on login, it also disables autostart.

Note that the error dialog kmail puts up is very unhelpful (the one with a list of very technical gibberish).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Daniel Vrátil 2014-02-17 14:26:34 UTC

Sorry, the wikipage is wrong, I'll fix it. The option StartServer controls whether the database server should be started or not. 

You cannot disable starting Akonadi server on login. The server is not started on it's own, but it's always started because some other applications has requested it, usually it's the clock plasma applet. You can prevent the applet from starting Akonadi by unchecking "Display Events" in it's settings. However if you have any other applets that require Akonadi, or if KMail is automatically started after login, the Akonadi server will be started automatically anyway.

Comment 2 thomas 2014-02-17 20:05:56 UTC

Fixing the docs is a fix too :) Thanks!