Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

[Mick]

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On Monday 13 Jun 2011 20:01:58 Alex Schuster wrote:

> Anyway, KMail has a problem now. I get this error:
> 
>   KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.
>   The error was:
>   Failed to fetch the resource collection.
> 
> It seems to work if I do not close this notice box, I can browse mails
> in my IMAP folders. I can compose new mails, but when I save as draft,
> kmail crashes. Did not try other things yet.

Thanks for the heads up.

You may want to try pointing your calendar, contacts, notes, alarm, in your 
SystemSettings/Personal Information to the files/directories that were 
previously pointing to.

That's what I had to do here after the migration from kde3.5 to kde4 (but I'm 
running sqlite3 instead of mysql on my desktop).  A couple of updates borked 
it and had to this again.

YMMV - please report back if this works. 
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Monday 13 June 2011 21:01:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> So I did the big KDE 4.6.3 -> 4.6.4 upgrade. Stupid me, I did not want
> to do this yet, but I missed the -a switch to a @system update, and that
> pulled in kdelibs-4.6.4. After this, konqueror no longer worked, so I
> did the full upgrade.
> 
> Along came the change to KDEPIM 4.6. On next login, Akonadi stuff was
> migrated, and some errors happened. The notice boxes closed
> automatically before I could make screenshots. Something with the
> migration of 'Standard-Kalender' to native backend failed, and some more
> stuff I do not remember. Did not look too bad though.
> 
> Anyway, KMail has a problem now. I get this error:
> 
>   KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.
>   The error was:
>   Failed to fetch the resource collection.
> 

look up the akonadi error log

 
> BTW, double-clicking a file in dolphin does no longer open it, but asks
> for the application to open it with. No known applications are shown.
> Hmm, I remember having this before, and there was some easy solution
> like running kbuildsycoca4, but this did not help here.

/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
is missing. Just create a symlink to kde-4-applications.menu

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Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

[Alex Schuster]

Volker Armin Hemmann writes:

> On Monday 13 June 2011 21:01:58 Alex Schuster wrote:


>> Anyway, KMail has a problem now. I get this error:
>>
>>   KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.
>>   The error was:
>>   Failed to fetch the resource collection.
> 
> look up the akonadi error log

Test 5:  ERROR
--------

MySQL server log contains errors.
Details: The MySQL server error log file &apos;<a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err</a>&apos;
contains errors.

File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err':
InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.5
110614 19:22:22  InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
110614 19:22:22  InnoDB: Warning: allocated tablespace 44, old maximum was 9
110614 19:22:22 Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 1.0.10-12.0
started; log sequence number 1431101630
110614 19:22:22 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table
'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them
110614 19:22:22 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
'mysql.servers' doesn't exist
110614 19:22:22 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.1.50-MariaDB'  socket:
'/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/socket-weird/mysql.socket'  port: 0
Gentoo Linux mariadb-5.1.50

I think I had a similar error before, one year ago, and it sometime
vanished misteriously and all seemed to be fine.


But I think the problem is this: WhenI start kmail in a shell, I get
this error:


Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult: Failed
SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult "Unknown error. (Failed to
fetch the resource collection.)"
kmail2(31523) MailCommon::Kernel::emergencyExit: "KMail encountered a
fatal error and will terminate now.
The error was:
Failed to fetch the resource collection."
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult: Failed
SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult "Unknown error. (Failed to
fetch the resource collection.)"
kmail2(31523) MailCommon::Kernel::emergencyExit: "KMail encountered a
fatal error and will terminate now.
The error was:
Failed to fetch the resource collection."
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJobPrivate::resourceScanResult: Failed
to request resource "akonadi_maildir_resource_3" : "Unknown error.
(Failed to fetch the resource collection.)"
"/usr/bin/kmail(31523)" Soprano:
"org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name
org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service
files"
"/usr/bin/kmail(31523)" Soprano: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid
name"
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult: Failed
SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult "Unknown error. (Failed to
fetch the resource collection.)"
kmail2(31523) MailCommon::Kernel::emergencyExit: "KMail encountered a
fatal error and will terminate now.
The error was:
Failed to fetch the resource collection."
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJobPrivate::resourceScanResult: Failed
to request resource "akonadi_maildir_resource_3" : "Unknown error.
(Failed to fetch the resource collection.)"
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult: Failed
SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult "Unknown error. (Failed to
fetch the resource collection.)"
kmail2(31523) MailCommon::Kernel::emergencyExit: "KMail encountered a
fatal error and will terminate now.
The error was:
Failed to fetch the resource collection."
kmail2(31523)/libakonadi
Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJobPrivate::resourceScanResult: Failed
to request resource "akonadi_maildir_resource_3" : "Unknown error.
(Failed to fetch the resource collection.)"



>> BTW, double-clicking a file in dolphin does no longer open it, but asks
>> for the application to open it with. No known applications are shown.
>> Hmm, I remember having this before, and there was some easy solution
>> like running kbuildsycoca4, but this did not help here.
> 
> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
> is missing. Just create a symlink to kde-4-applications.menu

This worked for a test user, but not for my own account. I also tried
kbuildsycoca4 again after I checked that this was the command that had
helped on the other PC. Still no change. Yes, I logged out and in.

And suddenly, some days later, it's working. I have no idea what fixed
this, but I'm glad it finally solved itself. The icons for the menu
entries are still mostly empty, but the applications are all back, and a
double-click in dolphin no longer asks what to do.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Argh: No KMail after KDEPIM upgrade

[Alex Schuster]

I did not intend to send this mail yet, but I accidentally did. It
happened when kwin started doing weird things again, like transparent
window titles, window content being all black or grey and such. Happens
after a few days of KDE4 sesstion uptime, the kwin proecess has grown to
some hundred megs (the record was 1.3G) then.

I wanted to close the running applications before logging out, which
somehow worked for the composing window of this mail, although it was
meant to end in the drafts folder, not here.
There was also a konqueror window which had some open tabs with threads
about this KDEPIM problem, forutunately I was able to save them, despite
the bookmark menu being all grey.

For the moment, I have disabled kmail in kontact, and grouped the
kontact window with a thunderbird window. Now the next problem is that
thunderbird does not check my IMAP folders for new mail, only the one I
am currently in. Do I fix this problem? Or better invest the time in
fixing this KDEPIM problem? Try another mail client?

None of those. Instead I install Linux Mint [*] on my Mom's notebook.

Again.

Because I just killed the existing installation. After some tweaking it
worked fine, so I thought it was time for a backup of /boot and ~/.*
files on a backup partition, which I had to create first.

Before:
/dev/sda7	10G	/root
/dev/sda8	10G	/home
free space	28G

After:
/dev/sda7	10G	/root
/dev/sda8	20G	/home
/dev/sda9	8G	/backup

resize2fs /dev/sda8 said the partition was at maximum size already, so I
rebooted. And no longer had a /home. Shouldn't this have been safe?

I removed /home from fstab so the boot process would not stop again. But
now X does not come up. And the console stays black. Somehow, eth0 is
down, but wlan0 is connected, I can log in via ssh in order to activate
the Grub menu, so I could remove the quiet option. Mint / Ubuntu does
not show a Grub menu, booting starts without delay. In Mint, even
pressing the escape key does not show the boot process, not sure how
this was in Ubunbtu. There is no fancy splash image either in Mint, so
the might be something wrong here. I wanted to activate the menu,
realized that Grub2 does things SO DIFFERENT from the Grub I know, but
then found /etc/default/grub, with lines like GRUB_HIDDEN_MENU=true or
something like that, and a comment said the update-grub command would
take care of this. I ran it, rebooted, and now I still see no menu.
Good: the boot messages are visible. Bad: they are totally distorted and
not readable, I think this is the new kernel or initrd I got installed
with update-grub. Had this before with Ubuntu when I allowed it to
install closed-source video drivers.

So I just did a fresh install, now I will configure what I already had
configured before. Then comes KDEPIM maybe, after some sleep.

	Wonko

[*] No, not Gentoo. I want a quick setup, no long compiles to keep it up
to date, and I hoped for some additional distro magic that would
automatically detect my WLAN & stuff.