Bug 376045

Summary:	Non-functional "Details" button when Akonadi fails to start
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex.danila.web, bugzilla, samuele.zappala
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.11.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tristan Miller 2017-02-05 12:45:34 UTC

If Akonadi fails to start, Kontact greys out the window and displays the error message, "The Akonadi personal information management service is not operational".  Below this message is a "Details…" button.  Clicking on the button has no effect.

The button should instead launch a dialog window that displays details on why Akonadi cannot start (perhaps similar or identical to the output of running "akonadictl start" on the command line).

Comment 1 Alex Dănilă 2018-05-27 20:53:50 UTC

*** Bug 394768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Alex Dănilă 2018-05-27 20:55:26 UTC

Can still reproduce with 17.12.3 of Debian Testing.

Comment 3 Samuele 2025-08-01 16:25:25 UTC

Can still reproduce in Fedora 42: recently I broke Akonadi by removing mariadb and the "Details" button nor the "FAQ" link in the message worked.
I found the same problem in Kmail and Merkuro Calendar.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.8-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 7052A9G
System Version: ThinkCentre M91p