Version: 1.13.2 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Kubuntu packages) Compiler: cc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-21-generic Contact is unaccessible since many months. It seems to be related to akonadi/nepomuk ! The new architecture is certainly brilliant,but its zillions of dependencies is raising the chance of failure. I have this problem on 7 different systems, administered by different people... I'd appreciate to have the chance to stick with the old architecture until the new akonadi/nepomuk is fully operationnal and stable. Daniel Cordey
The problem is related to the content of the ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc. The file is ceated with "Options" line like : Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/dc/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket" While it should be : Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" Daniel
It affects me too (2 completly different machines), and the proposed fix does not work for me. After changing the akonadiserverrc file, I don't get error message anymore, but kcontact does not show up at all.
Does this still happen with KDE 4.4.5?
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 00:56:58 +0200 (CEST) - Björn Ruberg <bjoern@ruberg-wegener.de> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236157 > Does this still happen with KDE 4.4.5? No. It doesn't seem... but I no longer use Kmail/Kontact anymore... too many important bugs :-( dc
I had some similar remark here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254451 do we really have to return to use mutt + homegrown addressbook?
On Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15.35:17 Rigo Wenning wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236157 > --- Comment #5 from Rigo Wenning <rigo w3 org> 2010-10-26 15:35:07 --- > I had some similar remark here: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254451 > do we really have to return to use mutt + homegrown addressbook? Once again, an upgrade of kmail (this morning) wiped my list of "filters", accounts and kontact... I've experienced this more than 6 times in one year and I'm frankly pissed of by this kind of bug !!! Yes ! If you can't fix this, we should consider to return to mutt (or mh/emacs in my case), since I've bever experienced the regular destruction of my contacts and config with it in 15 years... Kmail is a great product, but is rendered completely ridicule by this kind of problem; which is not a tiny glitch. Unfortunately, four of my colleagues already moved away from kmail... I'm willing to help but don't know what to do ! It doesn't break (meaning no exceptions of dumps) and breaks my config silently. At the end I'm stuck with sort of a fresh kmail installation... and no trace of any problem. Daniel
For the moment I reverted to OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE 4.4 and stopped all updates except security. I think Akonadi + Nepomuk is the greatest failure I've seen in KDE since 1997. So they should really revert and look for a different route. Startup of KDE with nepomuk takes ages just because Sebastian Trueg insists on having file monitoring in place instead of updating the system on demand or overnight. I use recoll.org now and this is better, faster, smarter search! The way it should be. Akonadi is a monolithic monster that breaks the X-Windows architecture and breaks Kontact if I log in from elsewhere. This turns off all the benefits of having X. KDE was the first system to integrate the browser into the desktop. Akonadi is under way to destroy this strategic advantage that is over 10 years old as it breaks the paradigm of seamless networking in KDE. Yes, I'm frustrated as the latest KDE-PIM I tested wasn't even alpha quality.
Mixed reports and unuseful comments. Closing.
Is "invalid" KDE's answer to "too hard to fix"?
(In reply to comment #9) > Is "invalid" KDE's answer to "too hard to fix"? No, it's the answer to your useless comments: «I think Akonadi + Nepomuk is the greatest failure I've seen in KDE since 1997. So they should really revert and look for a different route.» «do we really have to return to use mutt + homegrown addressbook?» «Akonadi is under way to destroy this strategic advantage that is over 10 years old as it breaks the paradigm of seamless networking in KDE» and to mixed reports in the same bug entry: «Contact is unaccessible since many months.» «Once again, an upgrade of kmail (this morning) wiped my list of "filters", accounts and kontact...»