On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 04:32:55 PM Alex Schuster wrote: > Anne Wilson writes: > > > > Recently I had a similar experience, in that the bootup sequence never > > finished. > > Did you also get the black screen, and nothing else happened from then on? > No, in my case KDE started to load - I saw the icons begin to appear, but when it got to the K icon it just stuck there. > > After fiddlingfor a while I did the obvious - renamed ~/.,kde > > and got a clean kde. I then copied back the essetials such as my mail > > configurations and ignored application and desktop (read desktop effects, > > etc.) altogether. Those are easily fixed as you come across things. > > I've had no problem since. Clearly something had either become corrupted > > or carried over where there was an incompatibility. > > I hate to do this. Sure, it would help, as I was able to log in with a test > user, but configuring things back as they were takes quite a while. And I > didn't know beforehand it would take so long. I hoped I'd find the problem > soon, remove the offending program or plasmoid, and all would be fine. I > had similar problems in the past, and could solve them this way. Like the > dreaded bug that made the password dialog useless when it was set to > display three stars per key pressed. > Then I would report the bug, someone would fix it, and it would never > happen again. The problem was that it does not look like there's a single > plasmoid being responsible for this, which was unexpected. > I talked with the Fedora packagers, and we went through such things as clearing out caches, but to no avail. There comes a time when getting a serviceable desktop as quickly as possible is the imperative. I would much prefer to have found the cause, but my friends at Fedora agreed that we had tried everything that stood a good chance of telling us something useful, so I made the decision to get back to work. > > > Ctrl-C in the Akregator main tab does not work. Akregator makes > > > Kontact crash about four times per day. > > > > Check for updates. I saw that a while back, but it doesn't happen now, > > so it's almost certainly version or distro-version specific. > > The Ctrl-C thing? No, the constant crashes. It drove me wild for a while, but it's OK now. > > Many of those things have already been addressed. Yes, any database that > > attempts to index everything is going to be big. The KMail issue, > > though, I consider to be more serious. I take it that you are using the > > experimental KMail2? > > Right. I thought it was considered stable by the KDE folks? I'm running the > ~amd64 branch of packagers, that is, they are not well tested on Gentoo > Linux, but are considered stable by upstream. At least that's how I > understand it. > No, it is considered stable enough for early adopters to do the final testing - and there have been many more problems than the devs had experienced themselves. It has been suggested that deleting any existing Akonadi database might help in a lot of cases. It seems that people have tried the pre- releases and may well have some incompatibilities hanging around from those earlier releases, but I assume that this is not the case for you. Before reading this I was under the impression that only Arch had put KMail2 into the main repos - but even then someone said it was tagged as not being mainstream - sorry, I can't remember what they call it. Certainly most distros have KMail2 firmly in the unstable repos, for testers only. > > I understand that IMAP and DIMAP have been merged, > > and I assume that that means DIMAP (downloaded) in every case. I'm not > > too happy about that myself. > > Well, at least it gives me a backup in case my IMAP provider's server dies, > or when I'm offline. I was just surprised about the amount of data, when my > backup partition ran full due to some extra gigabytes that were needed. And > the backup runs much longer now. But it's a minor problem, I can well live > with that. > Yes, it would be nice to know these things before-hand - would save a lot of worrying and wondering. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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