On Friday 26 February 2010 02:46:50 am Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 26 February 2010 05:52:41 Dave Stevens wrote: > > A couple of days ago I was using my F11 gnome system where I use kmail > > as pop client and ran some ordinary updates (including several kde > > updates) from the usual Fedora repo. Subsequently I got progressively > > slower and slower kmail and then my whole system bogged. > > > > The current situation is that kmail is totally unusable, and as soon > > as I fire it up my whole system is on the verge of unusability. > > > > My mail is tied up in kmail boxes that I now cannot access. I of > > course have work in progress that I can't get at. > > > > There was a pretty good thread on this topic on the fedora-list and it > > was suggested that people on this list might have more info. > > > > So what I think is happening is that somehow akonadi and/or nepomuk > > are fried, giving extremely slow (glacial) performance for programs > > that depend on them. I was able to see from a nepomuk failure message > > a link to a kde site where there were instructions for a workaround. > > This helped a bit and I will no doubt need to find those instructions > > again and get familiar with the process, because the fix is transient. > > For unrelated reasons I've had to reboot and every time I do I'm back > > in glacial terrain. > > > > Can anyone (PLEASE) suggest a decent fix or provide more information > > about this issue? > > First, yesterday I posted a message entitled "More nepomuk/kmail problems > and workarounds" - did you read that? no, I have been subscribed only to the fedora-list and it was in consequence of a suggestion I saw there that I have subscribed to this list. I'll go into the archive and read your post now, thanks. > I'm happy to report, though, that > the non- starting of kontact was cleared yesterday after an update, > although it's not obvious which updated package cleared the blockage. > > The page that has all the issues I've seen so far, and the workarounds (not > sure whether I added yesterday's yet) would be > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi > > Anne thanks again, Dave
