Will do Paul. I will try the login/ logout suggestion when I get home from work. and thanks for the confirmation. Eli Quoting Paul Scott <paulsscott at gmail.com>: > This workaround might have worked for me. I followed it, except I > didn't have a Special Occasion entry in my > ~/.kde/share/config/korganizerrc file. > It didn't work immediately though. I then logged out after creating a > new user to test the idea a new user might not be affected. The new > user was affected just the same as my usual user account. When I > logged back in again to my usual account, kontact started perfectly. > > It sure seems to be a weird problem that seems difficult to track > down. I recommend trying the suggestion below, with a logout/login as > a last step. It might work. > > Cheers, > Paul. > > On 11 February 2010 07:49, Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote: >> OK... Current Bug Reports. A workaround follows.... >> >> ?https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563789 >> ?https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218369 >> >> One thing to note: On the initial startup of Kontact Akonadi seems >> to freeze. >> All kontact related process and akonadi related process need to be >> killed and >> then from a console or the run command, one needs to run >> akonadiconsole to get >> things to work with the following procedure. >> >> Please refer to: >> >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218369 >> >> It would seem that if one were to go to: >> >> ? ?~/.kde/share/config/kontact_summary.rc >> >> and remove the >> >> ? ?kontact_specialdatesplugin >> >> entry. Also... >> >> in: >> >> ? ?~/.kde/share/config/korganizerrc >> >> I removed the : >> >> ? Special Occasion >> >> entry >> >> After that ... Everything seemed to work. >> >> Eli >> >> >> On Wednesday 10 February 2010 22:32:39 Eli Wapniarski wrote: >>> This seems to be true also with build >>> >>> epimlibs-devel-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepim-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepim-runtime-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.i686 >>> kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.i686 >>> kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepim-libs-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64 >>> kdepim-runtime-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> >>> Quoting Paul Scott <paulsscott at gmail.com>: >>> > Hi! >>> > >>> > It still isn't working in 4.4.0-1: >>> > >>> > % kmail >>> > <unknown program name>(15694)/: Communication problem with ?"kmail" , >>> > it probably crashed. >>> > Error message was: ?"org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not >>> > receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did >>> > not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, >>> > the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." " >>> > >>> > Tried, kontackt, kmail, kaddressbook, korganizer. >>> > >>> > With the following installed this morning: >>> > >>> > kdepimlibs-devel-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepim-runtime-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepimlibs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepim-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepim-libs-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepimlibs-debuginfo-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepim-debuginfo-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > kdepim-runtime-4.4.0-1.fc12.x86_64 >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Paul. >>> > >>> > On 9 February 2010 16:54, Luk?? Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com> wrote: >>> >> Dne P? 5. ?nora 2010 10:53:24 Christos Lazaridis napsal(a): >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> >>> I decided to give 4.4 a try and it does feel better than the beta that >>> >>> I tried and made me go back to 4.3 but I cannot get kontact to work >>> >>> for me. kmail, kaddressbook, korganizer etc all work fine standalone >>> >>> but kontact refuses to start. >>> >>> >>> >>> I made sure that akonadi is running before starting it up, removed >>> >>> ?kontactrc >>> >>> >>> >>> and .kde/share/apps/kontact and I get messages like these in the >> console: >>> >>> > <unknown program name>(2118)/: Communication problem with ?"kontact" >>> >>> > , it probably crashed. Error message was: >>> >>> > "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" >>> >>> > >>> >>> > : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote >>> >>> > >>> >>> > application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy >>> >>> > blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network >>> >>> > connection was broken." " >>> >>> > >>> >>> > kontact(2119)/khtml (caret) DOM::Selection::moveTo: Selection[ >>> >>> > Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 >>> >>> > "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) 1 ] Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 >>> >>> > ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) >>> >>> >>> >>> ideas? >>> >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> ? Christos. >>> >> >>> >> Known problem, our KDE will have this patched. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Luk?? 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