kmail problems on new laptop

[Brad Alexander]

Hi all,

I am having a problem with kmail. I built my laptop on the new job
with sid and the included kde 4.4.5. Set up email (kmail 4.4.7), and
it receives just fine, I can compose emails, but when I hit that send
button, both the compose and kmail windows gray out.  I end up killing
it after 15 or 20 minutes, and it gives me the crash dialog with
"Executable: kontact PID: 29071 Signal: 6 (Aborted)" This happens if I
am in kmail directly or in kontact.

Now the Akonadi self test came back with the following errors:

o MySQL server log contains errors.
o Akonadi server proces not registered at D-Bus.
o No resource agents found.
o Previous Akonadi server error log found.
o Current Akonadi control error log found.
o Previous Akonadi control error log found.

Since I know abosolutely zip about Akonadi, could someone give me a
hand with this? I tried going to userbase.kde.org/Akonadi, but it was
referring a lot to issues with apparmor (which I am not running), and
various stuff with restarting Nepomuk, which I did, and am still
getting the same issues...

thanks,
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4.6 status?

[Brad Alexander]

Is there a target date for the kde 4.6 release in sid?

Thanks,
--b

Device notifier doesn't detect devices

[Brad Alexander]

In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that the device notifier has
stopped detecting usb devices I plug in to my workstation, including my
Nokia N900's internal drive and the external SD, and my Hitachi 500GB usb
drive. They are getting picked up by the system:

Mar  3 19:11:44 defiant kernel: : [1174998.005494] sd 32:0:0:0: [sdb]
56631296 512-byte logical blocks: (28.9 GB/27.0 GiB)
Mar  3 19:11:44 defiant kernel: : [1174998.005858] sd 32:0:0:0: [sdb]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  3 19:11:44 defiant kernel: : [1174998.007104] sd 32:0:0:0: [sdb]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  3 19:11:44 defiant kernel: : [1174998.011253]  sdb:
Mar  3 19:11:47 defiant kernel: : [1175001.008871] sd 32:0:0:1: [sdc]
31116288 512-byte logical blocks: (15.9 GB/14.8 GiB)
Mar  3 19:11:47 defiant kernel: : [1175001.009362] sd 32:0:0:1: [sdc]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  3 19:11:47 defiant kernel: : [1175001.010860] sd 32:0:0:1: [sdc]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar  3 19:11:47 defiant kernel: : [1175001.013386]  sdc: sdc1

but the device notifier says "No devices plugged in."

I haven't done anything to the system other than routine aptitude upgrades.
I'm running kde 4.4.5, the current from sid.

Anyone got any ideas where to look?

Thanks,
--b

kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

[Brad Alexander]

Ordinarily, it doesn't seem to be an issue that the modern desktop hides
things on the command line level, how ever, when I go digging for something,
it does get rather annoying not having it in the obvious location.

I have two kde 4.5 installations. On my desktop, I installed Crossover
Office, which is why I believe broke things. On my laptop, I have the
following categories in the application menu:

Debian
Development
Education
Games
Graphics
Internet
Multimedia
Office
Settings
System
Utilities
Lost & Found

My workstation had a similar menu as well until I installed Crossover. Now,
I have the following categories:

Development
Education
Games
Internet
Multimedia
Lost & Found

...And most of the apps are in lost&found. I've tried going through the
kmenuedit, but we are talking about quite a few apps...

I figure that somewhere there has to be a directory structure that the menu
represents, but as yet, I haven't been able to find it. So what I wanted to
do is to use either the command line or maybe konqueror/dolphin and manually
create the categories, then move the apps from L&F to the appropriate place.

How would I do this with the kde infrastructure as it is?

Thanks,
--b

Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

[Brad Alexander]

That's interesting, because what is in
~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu does not match what is showing
up in my Lancelot menu.

The menus section has:


  
  Development
  Education
  Edutainment
  Games
  Graphics
  Office
  Internet
  Multimedia
  Science
  Crossover
  Applications
 

however this is not what is showing up in the actual menus. And one of the
applications which is currently living in Lost & Found, calibre, is listed
in that file as:

 
  Office
  Office-4.directory
  
  
   Crossover
   Crossover.directory
  
  
   kde4-kate.desktop
   calibre-gui.desktop
  
  
   
   calibre-gui.desktop
   kde4-kate.desktop
  
 

So if I am reading this right, calibre-gui.desktop should be under the
office menu...Which it is not.

Is there a way to fix this? Would, perhaps, moving this file out of the way
cause the menu to be regenerated? Or is there some reason why it is not
being read in the first place?

Thanks,
--b

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:33 PM, godo  wrote:

> Hi,
> it is text file:
> ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
>
> That looks something like that :
>  Web Development
>   
>
>bluefish.desktop
>cssed.desktop
>iceape-composer.desktop
>   
> ...
>
> So I guess you can cut and paste app names.
> Just to be safe backup 'applications-kmenuedit.menu' first.
>
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Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

[Brad Alexander]

Okay, I got some feedback from the kde guys on irc. Apparently, the menu
system is several hundred files scattered all over the filesystem, though
user-specific settings are in ~/.local and ~/.config. The best way to "fix"
it is to use kmenuedit. In my case, this will probably be a couple of hours
of work...Apparently, even though the menus are "wrong," kde does not see
them as "broken."

Thanks,
--b

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM, godo  wrote:

> On 2011-03-06 02:55, Brad Alexander wrote:
>
>> Indeed we shall. I would have, except there was no indication that I
>> found *where* the menus were being generated.
>>
>>
> I was also looking for some skeleton but didn't find him.
> There must be something that 'remember' our layout and I don't know what
> and where.
>
> Here is menu spec. maybe you can find something meaningful here
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/
>
>
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Fwd: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

[Brad Alexander]

Forwarded to list...Sorry. :)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Brad Alexander 
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?
To: Martin Steigerwald 


As it turned out, there was corruption in
/etc/xdg/menus/kde4-applications.menu. I replaced it with one from my
laptop, and viola... kmenuedit works and I have all of my categories back...

Thanks,
--b


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Sunday 06 March 2011 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> > Okay, I got some feedback from the kde guys on irc. Apparently, the
> > menu system is several hundred files scattered all over the
> > filesystem, though user-specific settings are in ~/.local and
> > ~/.config. The best way to "fix" it is to use kmenuedit. In my case,
> > this will probably be a couple of hours of work...Apparently, even
> > though the menus are "wrong," kde does not see them as "broken."
>
> Has the crossover installation ran with root privileges? If not, the
> changes it made should be restricted to somewhere in the home directory?
> Then you could just undo the changes by removing or better renaming parts
> of ~/.local or ~/.config unless you did other big changes.
>
> How about .local/share/applications or .config/menus/applications-
> kmenuedit.menu? Maybe thats also somewhere documented on
> http://userbase.kde.org oder http://freedesktop.org?
>
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KDE 4.6.2

[Brad Alexander]

I just upgraded my laptop (Dell Latitude E6500) running sid to kde 4.6.2.
Did an apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade, added the qt-kde repos and installed
kde 4.6.2. Had to then do another dist-upgrade to get all of the kde
packages that weren't upgraded by the previous steps.

Okay, so now, I logged in to kde from kdm, and the desktop loaded, but then
it crashed and fell immediately back to kdm.

So I moved my .kde directory out of the way, restarted the X server and
tried to log in again. This time, the desktop loaded fully, but any clicks
(like on the K menu) crashed the desktop again. I started the desktop in
Gnome, and it works, however, starting any kde apps kills the Gnome desktop.

In .xsession-errors (which I have attached from my last login to kde), I see
a lot of

plasma-desktop(20319)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
QSizeF(0, 0)

This culminates in

QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method LauncherApplet::toolTipHidden()
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] virtual
Soprano::ODBC::Connection::~Connection() Q
Thread(0xfd43f0)
polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.

Can anyone tell me what is bombing out and what I can do to get back to kde
from gnome?

thanks,
--b


.xsession-errors.kde
Description: Binary data

Re: KDE 4.6.2

[Brad Alexander]

Danke shoen, Martin.

Please see my comments inline...

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Hi Brad,
>
> I don't think these are a crash problem, since I have them as well:
>
> martin@shambhala:~> grep -i frame .xsession-errors
> plasma-desktop(3217)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> plasma-desktop(3217)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> plasma-desktop(3217)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> plasma-desktop(3217)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size
> QSizeF(0, 0)
> ^C
>

Fair enough.

>
> > This culminates in
> >
> > QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method
> > LauncherApplet::toolTipHidden() [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] virtual
> > Soprano::ODBC::Connection::~Connection() Q
> > Thread(0xfd43f0)
>
> I think these are debug output and do not indicate an error. I have these
> as well:
>
> martin@shambhala:~#130> grep Soprano::ODBC::Connection .xsession-errors
> [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub]
> Soprano::ODBC::ConnectionPool::ConnectionPool(const QString&, const
> QStringList&, QObject*)
> "host=localhost:;uid=dba;pwd=dba;driver=/usr/lib/odbc/virtodbc_r.so"
> [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] Soprano::ODBC::Connection::Connection()
> QThread(0x8aafd78)
> [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] virtual
> Soprano::ODBC::Connection::~Connection() QThread(0x8aafd78)
> [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] Soprano::ODBC::Connection::Connection()
> QThread(0x8aafd78)
> [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] Soprano::ODBC::Connection::Connection()
> QThread(0x8c3fc48)
>
> > polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error: client killed
> > kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
> > kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
> > klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
> > kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
> > kdeinit4: Exit.
> > QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what is bombing out and what I can do to get back to
> > kde from gnome?
>
> I don't seem to have:
>
> martin@shambhala:~> grep polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 .xsession-
> errors
>
> So whats your polkit versions?
>
> Mine is:
>
> shambhala:~#130> apt-show-versions | egrep "(polkit|policykit)"
> libpolkit-agent-1-0/wheezy uptodate 0.101-4
> libpolkit-backend-1-0/wheezy uptodate 0.101-4
> libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-4 installed: No available version in archive
> libpolkit-gobject-1-0/wheezy uptodate 0.101-4
> libpolkit-grant2 0.9-4 installed: No available version in archive
> libpolkit-qt-1-0/wheezy uptodate 0.95.1-1
> libpolkit-qt-1-1/experimental uptodate 0.99.0-2
> libpolkit2 0.9-4 installed: No available version in archive
> policykit 0.9-4 installed: No available version in archive
> policykit-1/wheezy uptodate 0.101-4
> policykit-1-gnome/wheezy uptodate 0.101-2
> polkit-kde-1/experimental uptodate 0.99.0-1
>

My list matches yours in versions...

[root@crazyhorse log]# apt-show-versions | egrep "(polkit|policykit)"
libpolkit-agent-1-0/sid uptodate 0.101-4
libpolkit-backend-1-0/sid uptodate 0.101-4
libpolkit-gobject-1-0/sid uptodate 0.101-4
libpolkit-qt-1-0/sid uptodate 0.95.1-1
libpolkit-qt-1-1/experimental uptodate 0.99.0-2
policykit-1/sid uptodate 0.101-4
policykit-1-gnome/sid uptodate 0.101-2
polkit-kde-1/experimental uptodate 0.99.0-1

The only difference in a couple of cases is that mine came from the sid
repos and yours from wheezy.


> Hmmm, seems I collected some cruft here. I think i safely can remove any
> of which there is no version in the official archives anymore.
>

Another piece of the mystery. I found this in /var/log/kdm.log:

kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kdmgreet(2172)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned
initialize() D-Bus call failed:  "Not connected to D-Bus server"


Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4aacc8]
1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x61e59) [0x461e59]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f35ab691000+0xf020) [0x7f35ab6a0020]
3: /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (FontFileListNextFontWithInfo+0x26)
[0x7f35ab1e89a6]
4: /usr/bin/X (doListFontsWithInfo+0x1d8) [0x427498]
5: /usr/bin/X (ProcessWorkQueue+0x21) [0x42ad21]
6: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x82) [0x45ef32]
7: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x48602) [0x448602]
8: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x257ab) [0x4257ab]
9: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f35aa3c9f6d]
10: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x25339) [0x425339]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

I have verified against my sid workstation (on which 4.6.2 works fine) that
the versions match:

[storm@crazyhorse ~]# dpkg -l xserver-xorg
+++-==-==-
ii  libc6  2.13-0exp5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libxfont1  1:1.4.3-2  X11 font rasterisation library
ii  xserver-xorg   1:7.6+6the X.Org X server

[storm@defiant ~]$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg
+++-==-==-

Re: KDE 4.6.2

[Brad Alexander]

I have a little more information to add to this mystery.

The story so far: I upgraded my workstation and my laptop to kde 4.6.2 from
the experimental snapshot on Friday. Prior to doing so, I did an aptitude
full-upgrade on both systems before and after installing.

Now, however, the desktop works fine. On the laptop, whenever trying to
start a KDE application (either from KDE or Gnome), X crashes and tosses me
back to KDM. There is some manner of backtrace in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and
/var/log/kdm.log as well as error messages in .xsession errors. (I will
include short segments of each file covering one such crash.

I decided to go ahead and "nuke and pave" the laptop, going through a
complete reinstall, installing squeeze, then using only the sid sources. As
soon as I installed the nvidia driver, I started seeing the same issues
again. The other thing I noticed was that in order to get the nvidia
working, I had to install nvidia-glx, which required I downgrade the
xserver-xorg package from 1.10.x to 1.9.5. On the laptop, this deinstalled
most of the xorg display drivers -- including nouveau and nv. I have been
hesitant to risk further breakage by trying to deinstall and reinstall the
drivers. However, prior to getting nvidia working, nv was installed and did
not display this behavior.

Okay, so now, I am trying to isolate it. I have all compositing turned off
(both withing kde and compiz -- and compiz runs fine in Gnome), so I figure
that the items that are left that could be the problem are

* nvidia driver
* KDE
* QT
* nvidia
* hardware

In an attempt to check the memory, I clicked menu from the kdm login screen,
then Shutdown.The turn off computer or restart buttons showed up, and
regardless of which I pressed, I got the same traceback and it started kdm
again.

I'm running a memtest, but does anyone have _any_ ideas why my laptop
appears posessed?

Thanks,
--b
[   176.828] 3: /usr/bin/X (ProcessWorkQueue+0x30) [0x80980e0]
[   176.828] 4: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x56) [0x80a7e26]
[   176.828] 5: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x3ae0e) [0x8082e0e]
[   176.828] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e695) [0x8066695]
[   176.828] 7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xf7416c76]
[   176.829] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e271) [0x8066271]
[   176.829] Segmentation fault at address (nil)
[   176.829] 
Fatal server error:
[   176.829] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[   176.829] 
[   176.829] 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
 at http://wiki.x.org



Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80edefb]
1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x58915) [0x80a0915]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xf77c1410]
3: /usr/bin/X (ProcessWorkQueue+0x30) [0x80980e0]
4: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x56) [0x80a7e26]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x3ae0e) [0x8082e0e]
6: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e695) [0x8066695]
7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xf74c3c76]
8: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x1e271) [0x8066271]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
 at http://wiki.x.org
for help. 



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Description: Binary data

Regenerating kde menus?

[Brad Alexander]

I rebuilt my workstation with sid, and ten restored from backups. When
I restored from backups, my kde menus (which were kind of broken by
crossover office that I installed back in the day) were restored as
well. I suppose I could remove ~/.kde and let it rebuild my config,
then tweak it to my tastes, but that seems like sort of a "bigger
hammer" approach. Is there a file I can tweak or delete to rebuild my
KDE menus?

Thanks,
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Laptop display smaller when not connected to external monitor

[Brad Alexander]

I'm having a bit of a strange problem. I'm running sid with KDE 4.8.4, and
just received a new laptop at work. I've noticed something kind of odd that
hopefully, someone can help with.

The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude E6520, with a resolution of
1920x1080. When I have it at work, hooked up to the docking station with an
external monitor (dual-monitor setup), the Konsoles in the laptop LCD are a
normal size, for an approximately 80x24 display at an 8 point font.
However, when the laptop is not hooked up to the docking station/2nd
monitor, everything seems smaller. xdpyinfo and the KDE size and
orientation display in system settings both say that the resolution is the
same, however, I have to reduce the font in the Konsoles to a 6-point font
to get the same screen real estate in the terminal.

Is there a possible fix for this to keep the same resolution with and
without the docking station?

Thanks,
--b

Kopete upgrade loses OTR?

[Brad Alexander]

I just upgraded both my laptop and my desktop this week, and kopete was
upgraded from 4:4.8.4-1+b1 to 4:4.8.4-2:

ii  kopete4:4.8.4-2
amd64instant messaging and chat application
ii  libkopete44:4.8.4-2
amd64main Kopete library

In 4.8.4-1+b1, off the record messaging worked. With 4.8.4-2, it is
missing. And the otr packages installed on both machines are

ii  libotr2   3.2.1-1
amd64Off-the-Record Messaging library
ii  libotr5   4.0.0-2.2
amd64Off-the-Record Messaging library

yet, there is no otr in the plugins list, nor, I notice, is there an
openpgp plugin. Have these protocols been deprecated, or is there some step
or package that I am missing?

Thanks,
--b

Missing printer module?

[Brad Alexander]

I just bought a network printer, and while trying to configure it, I opened
the System Settings, and when I clicked on Printer Config, I got a message:

The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface
'KCModule' with keyword
'system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py' The factory does
not support creating components of the specified type.

Possible reasons:
* An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned
control module
* You have old third party modules lying around.

I tried both a dpkg-reconfigure and an apt-get install --reinstall on the
system-config-printer-kde, both of which completed without errors.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
--b

Re: Missing printer module?

[Brad Alexander]

That looks like my problem. Which begs the question. When can we expect KDE
4.10 (or are they waiting for 4.11) to appear in sid?

The interesting thing is that the printer config (and the printer) still
works on my wife's sid machine. The difference is that I have been
upgrading mine fairly regularly, and hers has not been upgraded since
before the wheezy release.

--b


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dimitris Papadakis wrote:

> On Friday 14 Jun 2013 20:57:47 Brad Alexander wrote:
> > What am I missing?
>
> Hey, check bug report #705467
>
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akonadi failing to connect to database

[Brad Alexander]

I was trying to get kmail working since my upgrade to 4.10. I never got it
working in 4.8.4 either, with similar errors. I looked online, but akonadi
troubleshooting tips are all over the board. I found some for 4.3, and on
the KDE wiki has one troubleshooting tip for "Can't read any details of
some messages or big delays to read it" so I thought I would ask here.

When I opened kmail, it tried to transition to 4.10, and the first step was
to start akonadi. It failed after a few minutes. Tests 1, 2, and 6 passed,
tests 3, 4, and 5 (the mysql stuff) were untested.

Test 7:  ERROR


Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Akonadi control process is not registered at D-Bus which
typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during
startup.

Test 8:  ERROR


Akonadi server process not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Akonadi server process is not registered at D-Bus which
typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during
startup.

Test 9:  ERROR


Nepomuk search service not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Nepomuk search service is not registered at D-Bus which
typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during
startup.

Test 10:  SKIP


Protocol version check not possible.
Details: Without a connection to the server it is not possible to check if
the protocol version meets the requirements.

Test 11:  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'. The XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable is set
to '/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share'; make sure this includes all
paths where Akonadi agents are installed.

Directory listing of '/usr/share/akonadi/agents':
akonadinepomukfeederagent.desktop
akonotesresource.desktop
archivemailagent.desktop
birthdaysresource.desktop
contactsresource.desktop
davgroupwareresource.desktop
icaldirresource.desktop
icalresource.desktop
imapresource.desktop
invitationsagent.desktop
kabcresource.desktop
kalarmdirresource.desktop
kalarmresource.desktop
kcalresource.desktop
kdeaccountsresource.desktop
knutresource.desktop
localbookmarksresource.desktop
maildirresource.desktop
maildispatcheragent.desktop
mailfilteragent.desktop
mboxresource.desktop
microblog.desktop
mixedmaildirresource.desktop
mtdummyresource.desktop
nepomuktagresource.desktop
nntpresource.desktop
notesresource.desktop
openxchangeresource.desktop
pop3resource.desktop
vcarddirresource.desktop
vcardresource.desktop

Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to
'/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share'

Test 12:  ERROR


Current Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server reported errors during its current startup. The
log can be found in /home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.

File '/home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error' could not be
opened

Test 13:  ERROR


Previous Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server reported errors during its previous startup.
The log can be found in /home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old.

File '/home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error.old' could not
be opened

Test 14:  SUCCESS


No current Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did not report any errors during its
current startup.

Test 15:  SUCCESS


No previous Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did not report any errors during its
previous startup.


Now in the error log, I see lines like

Database error: Cannot open database.
  Last driver error: "QMYSQL: Unable to connect"
  Last database error: "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/socket-defiant/mysql.socket' (2)"
Unable to open database "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/socket-defiant/mysql.socket' (2) QMYSQL:
Unable to connect"
"[
0: akonadiserver() [0x418114]
1: akonadiserver() [0x418541]
2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x35260) [0x7f8236c4f260]
3: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7f8236c4f1e5]
4: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x148) [0x7f8236c52398]
5:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x102)
[0x7f82386f8912]
6: akonadiserver() [0x41a3eb]
7: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0xb0)
[0x7f8238793190]
8: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(+0x11858d) [0x7f82387a058d]
9: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x33)
[0x7f82387a9173]
10: akonadiserver() [0x41d2cd]
11: akonadiserver() [0x41e487]
12: akonadiserver() [0x411f43]
13: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f8236c3b995]
14: akonadiserver() [0x41

Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

[Brad Alexander]

Thanks Kevin. I think this is what is broken. It's got a split brained
config. So let me ask this...Which is a better backend? PostgresQL, MySQL
or SQLITE? My understanding is that sqlite is not as heavy as mysql, at the
cost of one thread (or query) at a time. Having said that, I know nothing
about this particular use case.  And if MySQL is the right answer, can I
use MariaDB?

Thanks,
--b


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Kevin Krammer  wrote:

> On Thursday, 2013-07-18, Brad Alexander wrote:
>
> > Is there a config file that I should get rid of and just let it configure
> > from defaults? I tried dpkg-reconfigure akonadi-backend-sqlite
> > akonadi-server akonadiconsole but it had the same behavior after doing
> so.
>
> The package doesn't change any user level configuration.
> You probably have to install akonadi-backend-mysql or change the config
> $HOME/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc so that it uses QSQLITE3 instead of
> QMYSQL as the driver.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>

Re: Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

[Brad Alexander]

Thanks Dederik,

Actually, a while back, I had figured out a way to change mysql to mariadb.
It was ugly and kludgey, but the couple of times I tried it, it worked.
Mariadb is truly a drop-in replacement, from the new tests I have done. I'm
not a DBA, but it works underneath things like Nagios...

I have a question (two, actually). I changed
$HOME/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc to be QMYSQL rather than QSQLITE3.
However, when I try to restart akonadi, I get the same startup messages...

Mysql server executable/server/configuration not tested

Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus
Akonadi server process not registered at D-Bus
Nepomuk search service not registered at D-Bus

Protocol version check not possible

No resource agents found

Now, I have found akonadi stuff in $HOME/.local and $HOME/.config. I
understand that dpkg/apt/aptitude will not mess with local user files,
however, if some or all of the files in one or both of those locations went
away (backed up, of course), would akonadi reconfigure itself? There is
very little information about configuring it from scratch that I have been
able to find online.

The second question is that I'm beginning to notice a larger and larger
number of kde apps using .local and .config. Is the .kde directory being
deprecated?

Thanks,
--b





On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote:

> On Friday 19 July 2013 08:22:03 Brad Alexander wrote:
> > Which is a better backend? PostgresQL, MySQL or SQLITE?
>
> MySQL is (by far) the most tested. PostgreSQL should probably work too (but
> haven't tried it). SQLite is AFAIK 'too light' for nepomuk/akonadi.
>
> > And if MySQL is the right answer, can I use MariaDB?
>
> I wouldn't do that until MariaDB gets into the debian archive.
> --
> GPG: 0x138E41915C7EFED6

Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

[Brad Alexander]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Kevin Krammer  wrote:

>
> Hmm.
> Can you run the mysqld command manually?
> for me it looks like:
> /usr/sbin/mysqld \\
> --defaults-file=/home/kevin/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf \\
> --datadir=/home/kevin/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ \\
> --socket=/home/kevin/.local/share/akonadi/socket-persephone/mysql.socket
>

I cannot Running the equivalent command on my machine gives me

130720 12:17:45 [Warning] One can only use the --user switch if running as
root

130720 12:17:45 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
130720 12:17:45 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run
mysql_upgrade to create it.
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.7
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
130720 12:17:45 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 67108864 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 5242880 bytes!
130720 12:17:45 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
130720 12:17:45 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE
failed.
130720 12:17:45 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable
'defaults=/home/storm/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf'
130720 12:17:45 [ERROR] Aborting

130720 12:17:45 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

Now, having said that, the blunt-force trauma approach seems to have
worked. I deleted $HOME/.config/akonadi and $HOME/.local/share/akonadi
seems to have done the trick. kmail/kontact  is working now.

Thanks all!
--b

Kmail encryption issues

[Brad Alexander]

I am wondering if there is a problem with kmail and encryption. I am
running two instances of kmail, one on my sid laptop (work), and one on my
home machine (sid). Both are running 4:4.10.5-2. I launch both through
kontact. I wanted to bounce this off of the list before opening a bug

Problem 1: I got an email certificate on the work machine. When I gried to
import it into kmail, every time, it fails to decrypt the certificate. I
was able to import it into iceweasel with no problems using the exact same
passphrase. I'm not sure if it is kleopatra or kmail itself.

Problem 2: Signed, encrypted emails sent with kmail that I have been
exchanging with a friend all fail to provide a good signature. Since the
email is encrypted, I it has to be a problem prior to encryption and
transmission.

Bug 524759 provides
a workaround, to symlink /usr/bin/gpg2 to /usr/bin/gpg. I tried
this, but both problems persist. I have not yet tracked down possible bugs
in kleopatra, kgpg or any other packages, and am hoping someone might have
some more insight into this issue, and have a good workaround.

Thanks,
--b

Re: KDE 4.12.2

[Brad Alexander]

...And hopefully kopete with OTR re-enabled... :)


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM, David Goodenough <
david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 06 March 2014 23:19:51 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 February 2014 15:44:50 Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Anyhow, this has now been fixed in experimental.
> > >
> > > I've been using KDE 4.12.2 now a bit and it seems to perform very
> well, I
> > > didn't notice any problem yet.
> > >
> > > Thanks to the Debian KDE team for packaging it!
> >
> > Thank you for testing it!
> Any idea when it might hit sid?  It would be really nice to get all the bug
> fixes that 4.12 is supposed to have for kmail as the 4.11 one is driving me
> round the bend.
>
> David
>
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Device notifier strangeness

[Brad Alexander]

Hi,

I'm not sure when it happened, but I am running sid on my desktop, with the
latest kde 4.11. Also note that I also have a Dell laptop with much the
same configuration.

Now, I have a Nokia N900, which is a Maemo-based device as well as an
iphone 4. On my desktop, when I plug the iphone in (primarily to charge),
device-notifier sees a Camera. Same on my laptop.

However, when I plug the N900 into the desktop, device-notifier sees
nothing. syslog sees:

Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.051611] scsi 7:0:0:0:
Direct-Access NokiaN900  031 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.052207] scsi 7:0:0:1:
Direct-Access NokiaN900  031 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.053088] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi
generic sg3 type 0
Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.053771] sd 7:0:0:1: Attached scsi
generic sg4 type 0
Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.059063] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached
SCSI removable disk
Mar 12 21:21:17 defiant kernel: : [41012.059755] sd 7:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached
SCSI removable disk



On the laptop, it works as expected, and device-notifier mounts the drives.
Note that the behavior used to be the same on defiant (the workstation) as
on the laptop. I have done no configuration on either machine, so I'm not
exactly sure where to look. I went through the device-notifier settings,
and they look the same. Anyone got any ideas
on what might be broken on the destop?

Thanks,
--b

KDE cleanup

[Brad Alexander]

I noticed that there are a variety of kde packages installed on my system.
There are mostly 4.11.[3-7] packages, but I see some much, much older
packages, including

libkworkspace44:4.7.4-2+b1
libkworkspace4abi14:4.8.4-6
libkdegames5a 4:4.8.4-3
libkdecorations4  4:4.8.4-6

and so forth. Could and/or should packages like that be removed? And is
there a clean way of doing it without breaking the interface? Or should I
let it ride?

Thanks,
--b

Re: Device notifier strangeness

[Brad Alexander]

Thanks Brad...That worked.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Brad Rogers  wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:16:59 +0200
> Edward J. Shornock  wrote:
>
> Hello Edward,
>
> >I've had similar problems but haven't been able to work out what is
> >causing it (the plasmoid itself, udev, udisks, etc.). On a few occasions
>
> From what I've read, it's the change from udev to udev2.  To fix for one
> session, as root do;
>

Ah. So on one hand, I'm glad it worked...But on the other hand, I can't
help wondering why I had to do it on the desktop and not the laptop. Both
are running udev 204-7, and both are on kernel 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
3.13.5-1.


>  echo 2000 > /sys/module/block/parameters/events_dfl_poll_msecs
>
> To make it permanent, add that same command to /etc/rc.local
>
>
Can that be set in sysctl.conf? Is there a sysctl-like equivalent for the
/sys pseudo filesystem?

--b

Video playback

[Brad Alexander]

Hi,

This was originally posted to debian-user, but aside from the thread
getting threadjacked to systemd, I did not get an answer.

In any case, my wife has a Dell Inspiron 5537, 15" laptop. It has an Intel
Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller.

Here is my problem. When I try to play a video on this machine, either with
mplayer or vlc, the video starts, and I will get about 1/2" of the frame
that is actually playing, usually it is at the top. The audio plays
normally. This happens whether in a window or full screen.

Videos played in the browser are fine, however, those downloaded from sites
played in mplayer or vlc exhibit the same behavior as above.

This machine is running Debian/sid with the latest KDE (4.13) from sid.

Can anyone tell me what is going on or how to get the Intel driver dialed
in (or even where to look to diagnose these video problems?

Thanks,
--b

strange KDE behavior

[Brad Alexander]

I noticed several strange issues today with my laptop, a Dell Latitude
E6520 running sid. I have not updated this box in the last couple of weeks.

When I went to shut down this morning to leave for work, clicking on the
lock/leave icon in the system tray, or from the menu, it did nothing. I had
to su ; halt, which worked.

When I got to work, I went to boot, and once the machine was up, I logged
into kdm. It went through the startup, and the login screen blanked, but it
took an inordinately long time for the desktop to appear...

When the desktop did appear, there was something kind of strange. At work,
I have a docking station with a second monitor attached. Normally, the
screens are separate, and I have two images, one on each screen. Today, I
had a single image stretched across the two screens.

Any ideas what might have happened to cause this?

Nothing in the logs to indicate a problem...

Thanks,
--b

kmail email filtering only works sometimes

[Brad Alexander]

I am using kmail (through kontact) for my work email, and everr since I
upgraded to 4.14.1-1, mail filtering has been hit or miss. At times, you
have to right click on a message and click "apply all filters", and it will
properly apply the filters, but most of the time, it does not. In prior
versions, it would filter automatically.

Was there a change in kmail that broke this feature, or did something not
get upgraded properly?

--b

Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

[Brad Alexander]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Volker Wysk 
wrote:

> Am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2014, 08:10:05 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> > I am using kmail (through kontact) for my work email, and everr since I
> > upgraded to 4.14.1-1, mail filtering has been hit or miss. At times, you
> > have to right click on a message and click "apply all filters", and it
> will
> > properly apply the filters, but most of the time, it does not. In prior
> > versions, it would filter automatically.
> >
> > Was there a change in kmail that broke this feature, or did something not
> > get upgraded properly?
> >
> > --b
>
> I've head similar problems. If I remember right, it has been fixed by
> deletion
> (or moving out of the way) of the file
> ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi_mailfilter_agentrc
>

Interesting. This didn't work for me. I moved the file out of the
directory, stopped and restarted kontact, and created a single rule. When I
applied it to a message that matched it, it did not mov ethe message as
requested.

Anything else I could try? I'd really hate going to icedove or some other
mua.

Thanks,
--b

Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

[Brad Alexander]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Xavier Brochard 
wrote:

>
> You should have restarted akonadi before.
> One can either :
> delete the file and logout
> or close kmail, delete the file, open konsole and type 'akonadictl
> restart',
> then reopen kmail.
>

Awesome. I restarted akonadi and was able to regenerate my filters, and all
seems to be working now.

Thanks all, for the help.

--b

Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

Over the past two to 3 months, I have had a problem with kmail on my
laptop, when connecting to my work exchange server. I have been trying to
determine if it is the IMAP server, the corporate NAC, or the akonadi
backend. I talked to the exchange admin, and he said nothing has changed on
his end since before the problems started. I have gotten radio silence from
the NAC admin.

What happens is that I end up having to restart akonadi, sometimes up to 30
or 40 times during the course of a work day. What I see in kmail varies,
from the status bar in the lower right sweeping back and forth like a
cylon, to it getting stuck at some percentage until I restart akonadi.
Sometimes, I will see messages suck as:

request for item 271396 "2040490" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from
resource: 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."

I also have to restart akonadi in order to see new emails that have come in
to my inbox. Finally, I find that I have a hard time deleting or moving
messages. The messages will gray out in the folder I am in, but never get
moved. Then i have to restart akonadi, and it seems to have forgotten the
command to move them.

Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every 5
- 10 minutes?

Thanks,
--b

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

Hi Sandro,

Thanks for your response. I will try my best to answer your questions.
First of all, the laptop in question is running Debian/sid with KDE 4.14.2.
Further answers are inline.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Sandro Knauß  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every
> 5
> > - 10 minutes?
>
> First we need to know what the problem is. For me kmail, kontact is working
> for years without any issue. What we need to know is:
>

Actually, it seemed to work well for me until a couple of months ago -- at
least as far back as 2014-10-21, which is as far back as my command line
history goes.


> * what versions have you installed
>

The akonadi-server, libakonadiprotocolinternals1 and backends are 1.13.0-2.
Most of the other tools, such as libakonadi-*, kmail, kontact, and
libkontactinterface4a  are at 4:4.14.2-2.


> * have you upgraded in the last months
>

It appears that the libakonadi libraries were upgraded from 4:4.14.2-1 to
4:4.14.2-2 on 2014-12-01. And prior to that, it looks like the libakonadi
libraries were upgraded from 4:4.14.1-1 to 4:4.14.2-1 on 2014-10-22.
akonadiconsole  was upgraded from4:4.14.1-1 to 4:4.14.2-1  on 2014-11-16.

The backends appear to have been upgraded from 1.12.1-1 to 1-13.0-2 on
2014-09-30.



> * what resources do you use
>

Not sure how to answer this one. My main concern is getting mail from the
imap server. I have a number of filters set up to move mail to different
folders.


> * do you restart akonadi via "ackonadictl restart"?
>

Yes.


>  -> if yes you can look for errors and/or the last lines of output
>

I have no idea what lines would be useful, but I just restarted, and got
lines similar to http://pastebin.com/Caxy2cpJ

The one error that I have seen on more than one occasion would be

request for item 271396 "2040490" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from
resource: 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."


> * futher we can dig deeper with akonadiconsole
> -> debugger window (enable debugger)
> -> job tacker (enable jobtracker)
>

Tell me how you would like me to proceed with these. I have no knowledge of
how the backends work, so please let me know what to look for.

Thanks,
--b


>
> Regards,
>
> sandro
>
>
>
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Re: Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

It may be, but the bug seems to go nowhere...And it appears that my
problems started with 1.13.0/4.14.0.

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Sandro Knauß  wrote:

> Hey,
>
> maybe this bug matches:
> https://bugs.debian.org/761045
>
> Regads,
>
> sandro
>
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> Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2015, 11:28:53 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> > Over the past two to 3 months, I have had a problem with kmail on my
> > laptop, when connecting to my work exchange server. I have been trying to
> > determine if it is the IMAP server, the corporate NAC, or the akonadi
> > backend. I talked to the exchange admin, and he said nothing has changed
> on
> > his end since before the problems started. I have gotten radio silence
> from
> > the NAC admin.
> >
> > What happens is that I end up having to restart akonadi, sometimes up to
> 30
> > or 40 times during the course of a work day. What I see in kmail varies,
> > from the status bar in the lower right sweeping back and forth like a
> > cylon, to it getting stuck at some percentage until I restart akonadi.
> > Sometimes, I will see messages suck as:
> >
> > request for item 271396 "2040490" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from
> > resource: 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."
> >
> > I also have to restart akonadi in order to see new emails that have come
> in
> > to my inbox. Finally, I find that I have a hard time deleting or moving
> > messages. The messages will gray out in the folder I am in, but never get
> > moved. Then i have to restart akonadi, and it seems to have forgotten the
> > command to move them.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every
> 5
> > - 10 minutes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --b
>
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Re: Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

Hi Martin,

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Martin Steigerwald 
wrote:

> I see that message here as well sometimes. Mostly after some spikes in
> Akonadi
> / MySQL activity (although MySQL is mostly gone from CPU after recent perf
> work in Akonadi server, see below).
>
> Then for me then KMail doesn´t respond anymore to any requests. I.e. the
> GUI
> still works, but mails are not displayed anymore, just the blue waiting
> display, folder switching works, but deleting mails or moving to different
> folder just does not make the actual actiion happen in the GUI. But at the
> same time then I do not see any load on Akonadi as well anymore. Sometimes
> the
> first moves or deletes still work, after a delay of 10 or 30 seconds, and
> its
> stops acting on my requests after that. I find this really difficult to
> describe
> conscively as various symptoms show up.
>
> KMail seems to wait for Akonadi, yet Akonadi seems idle. I have reported
> this
> first as:
>
> [snip...]


It happens several times meanwhile.
>
> I am currently using Akonadi server Git
> c733429f4fa9696fb027ddc946e54f6bbb68deaf with Millian´s and Dan´s massive
> performance improvements regarding MySQL (which actually do make a
> difference),
> but rest is 4.14.2.
>
> I see this message as well then.
>
> I didn´t follow up on the suggestions in that thread how to diagnose it
> due to
> other stuffs quite important as well. But Ingo Klöcker found this behavior
> as
> well.
>
> But hmm, there is one difference: KMail looses the connection, for me its
> usually enough to restart KMail – with making sure kmail process really is
> gone in between –, maybe restarting Akonadi doesn´t even work.
>
> So maybe the problem of Brad is a different one.
>
> For me with my massive mail setup (about one million mails in a huge local
> maildir, filled via POP3, and an 30 day limited IMAP account with about
> 3-4 mails, both some more small POP3 accounts).
>
> Brad, what is the exact behavior you see?
>

I see pretty much the same behavior. I can restart akonadi, though,
honestly, sometimes, I have to restart it a couple of times. I have taken
to keeping it running in a screen session, so that I can restart it as
needed.

--b

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

Andre,

I'd like to try the older versions. Is there an easier way to go back to it
than grabbing the debs from snapshot.d.o and trying to make them downgrade
without downgrading the rest of kde?

Thanks,
--b


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:59 PM, André Wöbbeking  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 03 January 2015 22:01:12 Brad Alexander wrote:
> > It may be, but the bug seems to go nowhere...And it appears that my
> > problems started with 1.13.0/4.14.0.
>
> indeed, 1.12/4.13 was the best version to work with an Exchange server.
> AFAIK
> with 4.14 "batch fetching" was introduced for better performance (and maybe
> less bandwidth). But Exchange doesn't like that. If a request results in
> too
> much traffic, Exchange just disconnects :-(
>
> I added a workaround to the imap resource which works for me somehow, but
> 4.13
> worked better. See bug 339393 which is in 4.14.3.
>
>
> Cheers,
> André
>

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

[Brad Alexander]

Thanks Dimitry.

I will let you know what I find.

--b

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Dmitry Smirnov  wrote:

> Hi Brad,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:28:53 Brad Alexander wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every
> 5
> > - 10 minutes?
>
> I had similar problem when akonadi accumulated nearly 2 million files in
> the
>
> ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data
>
> Here is what helped me:
>
>  * Set "SizeThreshold=32768" in "~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc"
>(default is 4096).
>
>  * Run "akonadictl fsck" which moved unreferenced files to
>"~/.local/share/akonadi/file_lost+found" (safe to remove)
>and gobbled files smaller than 32768 bytes from "file_db_data"
>into database.
>
> The above procedure dramatically improved kmail performance and response
> time.
>
> To optimise further you can check MySQL configuration in
>
> ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf
> ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf
>
> and bump "innodb_buffer_pool_size" and/or other relevant parameters.
>
> --
> Regards,
>  Dmitry Smirnov
>  GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B
>
> ---
>
> Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
> -- Robert H. Schuller
>
>

Logout buttons no longer work

[Brad Alexander]

I have a kind of a weird one, not sure where to go with it. For the past
while, I am unable to shut down  or reboot my Dell Latitude laptop.  At the
end of the day, I have been doing "sudo halt"...

But in the past week or so, I have noticed that when I do this, the system
feels obligated to delete my .bash_history.

Has anyone seen similar behavior or know of a possible root cause?

Thanks,
--b

Re: Logout buttons no longer work

[Brad Alexander]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Keian Rao Eng Haau 
wrote:

> Brad, considering you have done "sudo halt", this might sound a bit
> stupid, but have you tried using "shutdown -h now" instead? You might need
> to sudo that. For restarts, use "-r" instead of "-h".
>

You do need sudo for shutdown. And shutdown -h is the same command as
halt...In fact, in this age of systemd, they both point to /bin/systemctl:

$ ls -l /sbin/shutdown
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 29 03:14 /sbin/shutdown -> /bin/systemctl
$ ls -l /sbin/halt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 29 03:14 /sbin/halt -> /bin/systemctl


> What exactly happens when you try to logout? Nothing happens?
>

Nothing. The menu doesn't even come up when I click the logout button in
the tray, and when I click the K button and click Leave -> Logout, nothing
happens.

Thanks,
--b

Re: Logout buttons no longer work

[Brad Alexander]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Johannes Zarl  wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 February 2015 17:06:52 Brad Alexander wrote:
> > > What exactly happens when you try to logout? Nothing happens?
> >
> > Nothing. The menu doesn't even come up when I click the logout button in
> > the tray, and when I click the K button and click Leave -> Logout,
> nothing
> > happens.
>
> The same thing happened to me. I couldn't reproduce it on every pc, though,
> and not every time.
>
>
I can reproduce every time on my laptop. My desktop, OTOH, diesn't seem to
do at all.

The wrinkle that it also deletes my user's .bash_history, is a new and
annoying change.

--b



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Re: Logout buttons no longer work

[Brad Alexander]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Shai Berger  wrote:

> I may have had to manually install systemd-sysv or remove systemd-shim or
> something. It was more than 6 months ago, memory fails me.
>

That may have been it. I was trying my best to give systemd a fair shake,
so I was listening to interviews, and decided to give it a full shot. When
it was first introduced into Debian, I installed systemd-shim, not knowing
that it was about to suffer from horrible mission creep. A couple of months
ago, I replaced it on my laptop with systemd-sysv to try and give fairly
evaluate it.

Unfortunately, I'm still underwhelmed. Underwhelmed enough that I have
considered trying out pc-bsd...

But thanks for that. I may try to reinstall systemd-shim and see if I can
break it worse. :)


> Sleep and hibernate from KDE still don't work. "sudo pm-hibernate" works
> (but
> when the system wakes up, the screen is not locked).
>

Sleep has always worked for me, but that may be because, since this is my
work laptop, I have it autolock  after the screensaver kicks in anyway.

--b

Lock/logout

[Brad Alexander]

Hey,

Got kind of  a strange one here...Strange enough  that I have no idea where
to begin looking.

I have a sid laptop running the latest kde from the sid repos, what looks
like 4.14.2. Over the past couple of months, I have noticed that the
logout/shutdown buttons do not work, whether I do it from the button on the
taskbar or whether I click the menu -> Leave -> Logout/Shutdown/Reboot. I
am able to lock the session just fine.

When I click the logout button on the menu, sometimes the
logout/lock/reboot dialog will appear, but most times it won't. When it
doesn't, even clicking on shutdown in the menu does nothing.

Also, and I'm not sure it is related, *something* is deleting my user's
.bash_history...

Any ideas? Are the two even related? I have two pcbsd on the edge
repository running kde-4.14.2 as well, and never see this problem.
Admittedly, these are desktop boxes and not a laptop.

Thanks,
--b

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

[Brad Alexander]

Mine has been broken for weeks now...I have not upgraded because it appears
to want to deinstall all of KDE, plus other packages (like libreoffice):

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  akonadiconsole akregator amarok amor aptitude ark blinken blogilo bomber
bovo
  cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cervisia cvsservice digikam
digikam-private-libs
  dolphin dragonplayer ffmpegthumbs filelight freespacenotifier granatier
  gwenview jovie juk kaccessible kaddressbook kajongg kalarm kalgebra
  kalgebra-common kalzium kamera kanagram kapman kapptemplate kate katepart
  katomic kbattleship kblackbox kblocks kbounce kbreakout kbruch kcachegrind
  kcharselect kcolorchooser kde-baseapps kde-baseapps-bin kde-config-cddb
  kde-config-cron kde-full kde-games-core-declarative kde-plasma-desktop
  kde-plasma-netbook kde-runtime kde-standard kde-style-oxygen
  kde-telepathy-kpeople kde-workspace kde-workspace-bin kde-workspace-data
  kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdebase-apps kdebase-bin kdebase-runtime
  kdebase-workspace kdebase-workspace-bin kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics
  kdegraphics-mobipocket kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer
kdegraphics-strigi-plugins
  kdegraphics-thumbnailers kdelibs5-plugins kdemultimedia
  kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork kdenetwork-filesharing kdepasswd
kdepim
  kdepim-kresources kdepim-runtime kdepimlibs-kio-plugins kdeplasma-addons
kdesdk
  kdesdk-dolphin-plugins kdesdk-kio-plugins kdesdk-misc
kdesdk-strigi-plugins
  kdesdk-thumbnailers kdetoys kdeutils kdewebdev kdf kdiamond kdm kdoctools
  kfilereplace kfind kfourinline kgeography kget kgoldrunner kgpg khangman
kig
  kigo killbots kimagemapeditor kio-audiocd kiriki kiten kjots kjumpingcube
  kleopatra klettres klickety klines klinkstatus klipper kmag kmahjongg
kmail
  kmines kmix kmousetool kmouth kmplot kmtrace knavalbattle knetwalk knode
knotes
  kolf kollision kolourpaint4 kommander kompare konq-plugins konqueror
  konqueror-nsplugins konquest konsole konsolekalendar kontact kopete
korganizer
  kpart-webkit kpartloader kpat kppp krdc kremotecontrol kreversi krfb
kruler
  ksaneplugin kscd kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers kshisen ksirk ksnapshot
  kspaceduel ksquares kstars ksudoku ksystemlog kteatime ktimer ktimetracker
  ktouch ktron ktuberling kturtle kubrick kuiviewer kuser kwalletmanager
  kwordquiz kwrite libakonadi-calendar4 libakonadi-contact4 libakonadi-kcal4
  libakonadi-kde4 libakonadi-kmime4 libasprintf0c2 libbaloowidgets4
  libboost-date-time1.54.0 libboost-date-time1.55.0 libcalendarsupport4
  libcmis-0.3-3 libcmis-0.4-4 libcmis-0.5-5 libcomposereditorng4 libcwidget3
  libebml4 libept1.4.12 libeventviews4 libglibmm-2.4-1c2a
libincidenceeditorsng4
  libkabc4 libkactivities-bin libkactivities-models1 libkalarmcal2
  libkasten1controllers1 libkasten1core1 libkasten1gui1
  libkasten1okteta1controllers1 libkasten1okteta1core1 libkasten1okteta1gui1
  libkasten2controllers2 libkasten2core2 libkasten2gui2
  libkasten2okteta1controllers1 libkasten2okteta1controllers1abi1
  libkasten2okteta1core1 libkasten2okteta1gui1 libkastencontrollers4
  libkastencore4 libkastengui4 libkateinterfaces4 libkatepartinterfaces4
  libkblog4 libkcal4 libkcalutils4 libkcddb4 libkdcraw20 libkdcraw22
libkdcraw23
  libkdcraw9 libkde3support4 libkdeeduui4 libkdegames5a libkdegames6
  libkdegames6abi1 libkdegamesprivate1abi1 libkdepim4
libkdepimdbusinterfaces4
  libkdewebkit5 libkeduvocdocument4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkgapi1
  libkgapi2-2 libkggzgames4 libkhtml5 libkimproxy4 libkio5 libkipi10
libkipi11
  libkipi8 libkleo4 libkmanagesieve4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff2-4
  libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkolab0 libkolabxml1 libkomparediff2-4
  libkonq-common libkonq5abi1 libkonqsidebarplugin4a libkontactinterface4a
  libkopete4 libkparts4 libkpeople4 libkpeoplewidgets4 libkpimidentities4
  libkpimtextedit4 libkpimutils4 libkprintutils4 libkrossui4 libksieveui4
  libktexteditor4 libktnef4 libktorrent3 libktorrent4 libktorrent5
  libktpcommoninternalsprivate8 libktploggerprivate8 libktpmodelsprivate8
  libktpwidgetsprivate8 libkutils4 libkwineffects1abi1 libkworkspace4
  libkworkspace4abi1 libkworkspace4abi2 libkxmlrpcclient4 libllvm3.5
  libmailcommon4 libmailimporter4 libmailtransport4 libmatroska6
  libmessagecomposer4 libmessagecore4 libmessagelist4 libmessageviewer4
  libmicroblog4 libnepomukcore4 libnepomukquery4a libnepomukutils4
  libnepomukwidgets4 libnepomukwidgets4abi1 libnoteshared4
  liboktetakastencontrollers4 liboktetakastencontrollers4abi1
  liboktetakastencore4 liboktetakastengui4 libokularcore1 libokularcore2
  libokularcore3 libokularcore4 libokularcore5 libopenconnect2
libopenconnect3
  libopencv-calib3d2.4 libopencv-contrib2.4 libopencv-features2d2.4
  libopencv-highgui2.4 libopencv-objdetect2.4 libpcrecpp0 libpimcommon4
  libplasma-ruby libplasma3 libplasmaclock4abi3 libplasmaclock4abi4
  libplasmagenericshell4 libproxy1 libqpdf13 libreoffice
  libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core
  libreoffic

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

[Brad Alexander]

Andy,

So are you saying to let it uninstall all of that stuff? This is my wife's
machine, so I really can't afford to have KDE broken on it. My machine is
running pc-bsd and is quite happy.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Andreas Bourges  wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 September 2015 08:31:19 Brad Alexander wrote:
>
> > Mine has been broken for weeks now...I have not upgraded because it
> appears
>
> > to want to deinstall all of KDE, plus other packages (like libreoffice):
>
>
>
> ...jep - this was gone yesterday, which made me dist-upgrade in a mixed
> sid/experimental installaition - and broke kwallet.
>
>
>
> After todays updates everything looks good again (and I wasn't affected by
> the plasma5 problem mentioned by Martin).
>
>
>
> regards,
>
>
>
> Andy
>
>
>

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

[Brad Alexander]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Andreas Bourges  wrote:

>
>
> Hi Brad,
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 01 September 2015 08:51:17 Brad Alexander 00
>
>
>
> No, no, no,no... apt would have uninstalled all those packages - until
> yesterday. Then the situation got way better (from a
> package-removal-upgrade perspective ;-) ), so I decided to give it a try.
>

Well, I do know it wanted to do the uninstalls today...


>  akonadiconsole, for example, was *not* removed during the dist-upgrade.
> But I think this only worked, because I still have some packages installed
> from experimental...
>

Please note that I don't have the experimental repos enabled. That may be
my problem...


> BTW: running sid is already quite a risk during such transformations - but
> running it your wife's machine is more than brave ;-)
>

Been doing it for years. :)

Wife's sid box still wants to deinstall on dist-upgrade

[Brad Alexander]

Has the gcc5 situation stabilized in sid? A dist-upgrade still wants to
uninstall a bunch of stuff:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  coinor-libcoinutils3 coinor-libosi1 digikam digikam-private-libs gimp
kde-full
  kde-plasma-desktop kde-plasma-netbook kde-standard kde-workspace
  kde-workspace-bin kde-workspace-data kdeartwork-style
kdeartwork-theme-window
  kdebase-workspace kdebase-workspace-bin kdeplasma-addons kgamma klipper
  kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers ktron libasprintf0c2 libatkmm-1.6-1
  libboost-date-time1.54.0 libboost-date-time1.55.0 libcairomm-1.0-1
  libclucene-contribs1 libclucene-core1 libcmis-0.3-3 libcmis-0.4-4
libcmis-0.5-5
  libcwidget3 libebml4 libept1.4.12 libgegl-0.0-0 libgegl-0.1-0
libgegl-0.2-0
  libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgltf-0.0-0 libgpgme++2
  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-3.0-1 libilmbase6 libkolab0 libkolabxml1
libllvm3.5
  libmagickcore5-extra libmatroska6 libmsn0.3 libmusicbrainz3-6
libopenconnect2
  libopenconnect3 libopencv-calib3d2.3 libopencv-features2d2.3
  libopencv-highgui2.3 libopencv-legacy2.3 libopencv-objdetect2.3
libopenexr6
  liborcus-0.10-0 libpangomm-1.4-1 libpcrecpp0 libplasma-ruby libproxy1
  libqalculate5 libqpdf13 libreoffice-style-crystal libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
  libsmokebase3 libsmokeqtwebkit4-3 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0
libsword10
  libsword9 libtag1-vanilla libtag1c2a libtinyxml2.6.2 libtunepimp5
libxapian22
  nvidia-glx plasma-dataengines-workspace plasma-desktop
  plasma-desktopthemes-artwork plasma-netbook plasma-scriptengine-ruby
  plasma-scriptengines plasma-widgets-addons plasma-widgets-workspace
ruby-kde4
  ruby-plasma ruby-qt4-webkit

I'm guessing that this is not normal, and I end up skipping over the
dist-upgrade. Now the list is a lot smaller than it was, but digikam
digikam-private-libs gimp kde-full kde-plasma-desktop kde-plasma-netbook
kde-standard kde-workspace kde-workspace-bin kde-workspace-data
kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase-workspace
kdebase-workspace-bin kdeplasma-addons kgamma klipper gave me pause.

Suggestions?
--b

Re: Wife's sid box still wants to deinstall on dist-upgrade

[Brad Alexander]

So kde-full, kde-standard, and the kdebase-workspace/kde-plasma packages
are not required for kde5, and won't uninstall necessary packages? I don't
want to break her kde install.

--b

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brad Rogers  wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:59:58 -0400
> Brad Alexander  wrote:
>
> Hello Brad,
>
> >Has the gcc5 situation stabilized in sid? A dist-upgrade still wants to
> >uninstall a bunch of stuff:
>
> A cursory glance at your list of files tells me that much of the stuff
> being removed is unnecessary for KDE/Plasma5.
>
> Digikam may not be (re-)installable after upgrade (I'm on testing, and
> it's not available there at all), but Gimp will be.
>
> --
>  Regards  _
>  / )   "The blindingly obvious is
> / _)radnever immediately apparent"
> It's cool to know nothin'
> Never Miss A Beat - Kaiser Chiefs
>

Clearing the akonadi cache

[Brad Alexander]

I figured I would ask here. In the past week and a half or two weeks, my
kmail/kontact has slowly come unglued. I am running the following versions
on a sid machine:

ii  akonadi-backend-mysql 1.13.0-7
ii  akonadi-backend-sqlite  1.13.0-7
ii  akonadi-server  1.13.0-7
ii  akonadiconsole 4:4.14.2-2
ii  libakonadi-calendar4   4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-contact4  4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-kabc4   4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-kcal4 4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-kde4 4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-kmime4   4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadi-notes4 4:4.14.2-2+b1
ii  libakonadiprotocolinternals11.13.0-7

Kmail is version 4.14.2-2. For the past few days, I have been unable to log
in to my account on office365 for work. I have not upgraded in a month
(last upgrade was on 8/24).

It started out that I would have to restart akonadictl, and it got to the
point where I was doing this 30 or 40 times per workday. Then a couple of
days ago, it started erroring out for me, and I could no longer log in to
the o365 server. I would get a pop-up that said

The server for account "" refused the supplied username and
password. Do you want to go to the settings, have another attempt at
logging in, or do nothing

Login failed, server replied A02 no authenticate failed [
Error=ProxyNotAuthenticated AuthResult=0
Proxy BY2PR10MB0630.namprd.prod.outlook.com:1993:SSL ]

And the akonadi messages had a message that said

akonadi_imap_resource_0(17887)/KSharedDataCache KSharedDataCache::insert:
Overwriting existing cached entry due to collision.

So first, is the cached entry a problem? If so, is there a way to clear it?
I originally thought the problem was with o365, but I can get to my email
in thunderbird. So does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
--b

Re: Clearing the akonadi cache

[Brad Alexander]

I have not. Currently working with the mail admins at work, but at this
point, they are tossing straws into  the wind.

I'm wondering if it is an issue with my mail people or with MS playing
passive-aggressive again against open source.

--b

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Danny Li  wrote:

> Hi Brad
> have you fixed that email issue?
> I have a java application which establishes TLS connection to office365
> to  gets emails through imap port. suddenly on 25 September, it failed.
> it said "...prod.outlook.com:1993:ssl Authenticate failed".
> I can get emails through command line -
> openssl  s_client -connect outlook.office365.com:143 -crlf  -starttls imap
>
> Like what you thought, I thought it's caused by that java application.
> but I didn't touch that java application for a long time.
> so I guess it's an issue from office365. I have raised it to office365.
> but in case that you got answer, could you tell me?
> thanks.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Danny
>