Oh my. Trying again. I already started a reply months ago, but kontact
crashed, and I lost it. I started again, ranted about KDE4, tried to open
systemsettings in order to check Mick's suggestions, but I misclicked and
hit kontact, which is directly below in my favorite list. Of course,
starting kontact under KDE4 does not open a 2nd instance of the program,
or gives a warning that I am about to start another instance which I
should not do, no, it just makes the running kontact crash.
And again, the mail is gone. BTW, in the past that was no problem, kmail
saved the drafts every two minutes (this is still configured that way in
its settings), but this does not work. Even if I close if the regular way,
unfinished mails are gone.
So I started for the third time, this time in thunderbird on a Windows
mchine. And from time to time I marked the text and put it into the
clipboard. I'm doing this with every longer mail now. I saved the mail as
draft, and went to my Linxu machine where I resumed the edit. I wanted to
try something and went into the import menu: Crash! Good thing
the Windows Clipboard still had it.
Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
>> - Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a
>> year ago showed one "address book" and many std.vcf (or similar) files,
>> with my data scattered on them. I moved all stuff into the "address
>> book", and did not use it for a while
>> Now I wanted to do so, but it did not run due to an error with akonadi.
>
> Did you try to create a local resource using your systemsettings and
> point it to the local KDE3.5 contacts file? If you restart the address
> book, then akonadi will kick in a carry out the migration - if it does
> not succeed it will tell you so. In that case you may need to fix
> things manually (I've posted how in an older thread of mine, where I
> managed to make akonadi to succeed in its migration from a local
> resource file using sqlite - I don't have mysql in this box. Let me
> know if you can't find it.)
I just tried that. I first added a dir-resource, as there are several .vcf
files in my .kde3.5/share/appes/kabc directory. BTW, I had to copy that
directory, as the file chooser did not show directories starting with a
dot.
Nothing happened when I restarted kontact. I did the same with a file-
resource, when I noticed that all the .vcf files were identical. Again,
nothing happened.
But: There are errors when akonadi is starting up during login. I think it
did not do this when I wrote the last mail, but probably this is the
problem now for the migration does not work. I attached the error parts of
the log.
And I looked for your posting, and searched all of my gentoo-user archive,
but somehow I did not find it. If you think it would help in my case, and
if you still have it at hand, it would be nice if you could direct me to
it (the subject would be enough).
>> I tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error message
>> in English, but then I found out that I only have to restart kontact.
>> Fine, now I want to add a contact. First, when I want to edit the
>> location, the country is set to Afghanistan, I always have to change
>> this to Germany.
>> Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for
>> Afghans perhaps.
>
> Have you tried to set up your locale in systemsettings to Germany?
Yes, it's set like that.
>> - Dolphin can do FTP, but I have to repeat the login process several
>> times until I see the destination files.
>
> I've also noticed an error when I try to connect with ftp saying that
> the connection failed, but then if I click on reload it connects fine.
Works sometimes, and sometimes not. Also, sometimes the content is not
updated when I dragged files via FTP.
Other current dolphin problems:
- Opens maximized horizontally every time, except at session startup.
- The sorting is strange sometimes: Foo-1.srt, Foo-2.avi,
Foo-1.avi, Foo-2.srt
- When the KDE session comes up, all dolphins have the same view. I'd like
one of them to have a different view, but when I do this, next time the
session comes up all dolphins will have this view, too. There is an option
to remember every folder's view, but every time I open a new folder, it
opens in symbol view first, not in the current view of the upper folder.
>> - Of course, Amarok keeps doing weird things. At least I can play music
>> from my collection. But playing a stream sometimes crashes it. And
>> dragging files into Amarok always leads to a crash. Yeah, I know,
>> Amarok is not KDE.
>
> Given up on that long ago (and sadly have not found a nice replacement
> which won't pull in the whole of Gnome or worse)
It's getting better. It's more stable, and startup time is now 30 seconds
instead of 7 minutes.
Have you tried clementine? It has the look of Amarok.
>> But at least one bug was fixed, I got a mail from bugzilla about this
>> today. It's the bug that makes password dialogs not work if the
>> password is to be displayed as three bullets. Wow, nearly two months
>> after it had been reported, this serious bug was at least confirmed to
>> exist and is fixed now. Maybe this bug happens seldomly, but when it
>> happens, much of KDE4 is unusable, as you have no kmail, no kwallet,
>> nothing that needs a password works.
>>
> Hmm ... no such problem over here.
Had you set the password dialog to show 3 bullets for each key pressed?
Another pretty bad thing that happened: Once when I started kontact, it
showed me a birthday I had forgotten, two days AFTER the birthday
It did not bother to remind me the days before when kontact was runing all
the time. Now, what's the purpose of an organizer when you cannot trust it
to show appointments? Good thing I don't use it much.
>> Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
Still thinking about dumping it. The current most annoying bug is that
about once a day the mouse stops working. I can move it, xeyes keeps
watching it, and sometimes I can still use it inside a part of klast
active window. But for nothing else. So I have to log out and back in
again.
I'm not sure what the problem is, it happened after I updated to
kde-4.4.3, xorg-1.7 and ati-drivers 10.4. Downgrading ati-drivers did not
help, downgrading xorg did not succeed, I got compilation errors and gave
up, as I suspect that it's KDE itself. But a downgrade to 4.4.2 would take
a while, and I'd expect that alll hell might breake loose if I let this
older version mess with my current .kde4 directory.
I hoped that a reinstall (because switching to a 64 bit OS) would
magically solve this, but it didn't. I tried to kill and restart kwin and
plasma-desktop, this did not help.
Current list of other, but not so bad problems:
- Konquerer used to ask if I really want to close it, or just the current
tab. Not since 4.4.4.
- Ark cannot save all selected files via drag&drop, only one. And then it
opens the home folder with dolphin, not the destination folder.
- Automatic spell checking no longer happens in kmail or konqueror.
- Session saving sometimes fails. I always back up my .kde4 before I dare
this.
- Once my activities were on the wrong desktops, it took me a while until
I had thinsg back as they should be.
- Konqueror crashes a lot.
- And every login the dialog comes up telling me that konqueror crashed,
unless I quit every running instance before logging out of KDE.
- Konsole profiles show up in the menu only after I activated them in the
profile dialog. Some of the things I have to repeat after every login into
KDE.
- Strigi indexes some directory over and over again and again and again
and again. And again and again. Then it crashes, and when I re-activate
it, it indexes the folder again and again and again. And so on.
Wonko
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Test 4: ERROR
--------
MySQL server log contains errors.
Details: The MySQL server error log file '<a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err</a>'
contains errors.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err':
100608 9:33:33 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 6080335
100608 9:33:35 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table
'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them
100608 9:33:35 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
'mysql.servers' doesn't exist
100608 9:33:35 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.1.46-log' socket:
'/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket' port: 0 Gentoo Linux
mysql-5.1.46
Test 14: ERROR
--------
No resource agents found.
Details: No resource agents have been found, Akonadi is not usable without at
least one. This usually means that no resource agents are installed or that
there is a setup problem. The following paths have been searched:
'/usr/share/akonadi/agents /usr/share/akonadi/agents'. The XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variable is set to '/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share', make
sure this includes all paths where Akonadi agents are installed to.
Directory listing of '/usr/share/akonadi/agents':
birthdaysresource.desktop
contactsresource.desktop
icalresource.desktop
imapresource.desktop
kabcresource.desktop
kcalresource.desktop
knutresource.desktop
kolabproxyresource.desktop
localbookmarksresource.desktop
maildirresource.desktop
maildispatcheragent.desktop
mboxresource.desktop
microblog.desktop
mtdummyresource.desktop
nepomukcalendarfeeder.desktop
nepomukcontactfeeder.desktop
nepomuktagresource.desktop
nntpresource.desktop
notesresource.desktop
pop3resource.desktop
vcarddirresource.desktop
vcardresource.desktop
Directory listing of '/usr/share/akonadi/agents':
birthdaysresource.desktop
contactsresource.desktop
icalresource.desktop
imapresource.desktop
kabcresource.desktop
kcalresource.desktop
knutresource.desktop
kolabproxyresource.desktop
localbookmarksresource.desktop
maildirresource.desktop
maildispatcheragent.desktop
mboxresource.desktop
microblog.desktop
mtdummyresource.desktop
nepomukcalendarfeeder.desktop
nepomukcontactfeeder.desktop
nepomuktagresource.desktop
nntpresource.desktop
notesresource.desktop
pop3resource.desktop
vcarddirresource.desktop
vcardresource.desktop
Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to
'/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share'
Test 16: ERROR
--------
Previous Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server did report error during its previous startup into
<a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old</a>.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old':
D-Bus session bus went down - quitting
Test 18: ERROR
--------
Previous Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did report error during its previous
startup into <a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old</a>.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old':
D-Bus session bus went down - quitting
ata or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
[...]
100412 20:35:01 InnoDB: Unable to open the first data file
InnoDB: Error in opening ./ibdata1
100412 20:35:01 InnoDB: Operating system error number 11 in a file operation.
InnoDB: Error number 11 means 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at
InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/operating-system-error-codes.html
InnoDB: Could not open or create data files.
InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here,
InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back
InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created
InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of
InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not
InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data!
100412 20:35:01 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
100412 20:35:01 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
100412 20:35:01 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported table type: innodb
100412 20:35:01 [ERROR] Aborting
100412 20:35:01 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
Test 14: ERROR
--------
Current Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server did report error during startup into <a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error</a>.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error':
Database error: Cannot open database.
Last driver error: "QMYSQL: Unable to connect"
Last database error: "Can't initialize character set utf8 (path:
/usr/share/mysql/charsets/)"
[...]
Test 15: ERROR
--------
Previous Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server did report error during its previous startup into
<a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old</a>.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old':
D-Bus session bus is not available!
"[
0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x35) [0x80526e5]
1: akonadiserver() [0x8052c6c]
2: [0xffffe400]
3: [0xffffe424]
4: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x50) [0xb6e1b860]
5: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x185) [0xb6e1d095]
6: /usr/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x9d)
[0xb7481eed]
]
"
Test 17: ERROR
--------
Previous Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did report error during its previous
startup into <a
href='/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old'>/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old</a>.
File content of '/home/wonko/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi_control.error.old':
D-Bus session bus went down - quitting
