Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-03-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 14:26 +, John Austin wrote: > Maybe I am not thinking clearly > > All I am doing is using Thunar/PCManfm as a file manager and clicking > on an email file to read or print it. If you just want to read individually stored emails as files, there's probably any number of w

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dave Stevens wrote: > I don't know how many subscribers there are to this list and in any > case do not feel comforted to hear that mine may be a corner case. I > thought at one point that maybe I'd try removing and reinstalling > akonadi. I saw a humongous list of apps that would be removed for >

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Let me see... System Settings -> Advanced -> Desktop Search -> Basic > Settings, and there you need to enable Nepomuk Semantik Desktop, and maybe > Strigi Desktop File Indexer (just check the two checkboxes present). Actually only the first one is required for Akonadi to b

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk on this fully > updated F12/64bit/KDE Same here (except 32-bit as this is an old P4 Northwood). I did get the Akonadi warning about Nepomuk being disabled, but that's just a warning, and I just enabled Nepomuk in Sys

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Dave Stevens
umongous list of apps that would be removed for dependencies. I'd presumably have to install them all again as well as akonadi. I didn't do it. But it pointed out to me the centrality of this software to a lot of K work. If it's so central this reinforces the case for solid tes

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Mike Cloaked
to the few is us "corner cases" id due course. -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/KMail-Akonadi-mess-tp415121p420876.html Sent from the Fedora Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting John Austin : > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:25 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:39:26 pm Mike Cloaked wrote: >> > I am afraid that I have lost patience with this. As far as my own >> > view goes - mail is one of the few absolutely essential functions of >> > a

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 12:26 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2010 10:27:25 am John Austin wrote: > > There is most definitely a problem somewhere with kmail but appears to > > be non-fatal for me > > > > After a reboot when opening an email file a message saying Akonadi > > is

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 28 February 2010 10:27:25 am John Austin wrote: > There is most definitely a problem somewhere with kmail but appears to > be non-fatal for me > > After a reboot when opening an email file a message saying Akonadi > is being started followed by a popup about Nepomuk (attached) > > After

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-28 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:25 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:39:26 pm Mike Cloaked wrote: > > I am afraid that I have lost patience with this. As far as my own > > view goes - mail is one of the few absolutely essential functions of > > any computer system/desktop/l

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 28 February 2010 01:30:19 am John Aldrich wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk > > > > I am running KMail as a client to the IMAP (dovecot) server on my > > desktop. KMail cras

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk on this fully > > updated F12/64bit/KDE. Everything works as expected, and my KMail > > experience has > > actually improved since KDE4.4 update came out. > > I'

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk on this fully > updated F12/64bit/KDE. Everything works as expected, and my KMail > experience has > actually improved since KDE4.4 update came out. I've been having a curious problem with KMail for 3 or 4 days. KMai

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:39:26 pm Mike Cloaked wrote: > I am afraid that I have lost patience with this. As far as my own > view goes - mail is one of the few absolutely essential functions of > any computer system/desktop/laptop/netboook, and any update that > breaks a working mail setup i

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
to have happened with the akonadi/nepomuk/kmail fiasco then at least I can simply close down kmail and open up Thunderbird and I am back in business - who knows how many people may never return to kmail after their experiences this week? -- mike -- View this message in context: http://n3

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Mail Lists : > >On the last remaining computer I am aware of/maintain with kmail > still being used - akonadi was running, mysqld was running, and > nepemonkey was running all with user privs - nothing I tried could > resurrect kmail to a working state - I googled, read fedora threads e

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/26/2010 09:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: >> I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this >> should try renaming ~local/share/akonadi and try again. It might also have >> had something to do with mysqld. I don't know if it was already running or >>

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
John Aldrich wrote: > I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this > should try renaming ~local/share/akonadi and try again. It might also have > had something to do with mysqld. I don't know if it was already running or > not, but I manually started the service before re

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess [resolved]

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 25 February 2010, Andre Goree wrote: > > Great to see you got it working :) > You and me both! I suspect the problem occurred because I was reading email while updating Fedora. I had no idea it would be a problem as it's never been a problem before. Perhaps some developer should loo

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 10:15:09 am John Aldrich wrote: > Well, I'm not sure what the problem was, but after reading some suggestiosn > on the KDE forum, I tried renaming ~/local/share/akonadi to akonadi-old and > tried starting KMail again and it miraculously started normally. > > I would su

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I'm not sure what the problem was, but after reading some suggestiosn on the KDE forum, I tried renaming ~/local/share/akonadi to akonadi-old and tried starting KMail again and it miraculously started normally. I would suggest that anyone who has problems after an upgrade like this should

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Andre Goree : > On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:24:27 am John Aldrich wrote: > >> >> [j...@slave1 akonadi]$ sudo service mysql start >> [sudo] password for john: >> mysql: unrecognized service >> >> I have also verified that, in fact, mysql *is* started. > > > Oops, I meant to say 'service

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:38:03 am Rex Dieter wrote: > Andre Goree wrote: > > I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start > > Akonadi again. > > $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql > mysql-server > qt4-mysql > > (ie, it should already be there). > > -- Rex I

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter : > Andre Goree wrote: > >> I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start >> Akonadi again. > > $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql > mysql-server > qt4-mysql > > (ie, it should already be there). > Yep. Got 'em. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 9:24:27 am John Aldrich wrote: > > [j...@slave1 akonadi]$ sudo service mysql start > [sudo] password for john: > mysql: unrecognized service > > I have also verified that, in fact, mysql *is* started. Oops, I meant to say 'service msqyld start'. Notice the "mysqld

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Andre Goree wrote: > I'd suggest you install mysql if it is not already, then try to start > Akonadi again. $ rpm -q --requires akonadi | grep mysql mysql-server qt4-mysql (ie, it should already be there). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Andre Goree : > > I had to deal with this with Mandriva when I first moved to KDE4.4. This > usually means Akonadi can't find the mysql server. I ended up creating a > database for it on a remote mysql server, but you can also do this locally. > > I believe mysql should've been installed

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan : > > Again, you're likely to get more of a response if you post this on the > Fedora-KDE list. > Ok. I'll see what I can do... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Andre Goree
On Thursday 25 February 2010 8:26:31 am John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > > Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: > I tried sta

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Rex Dieter : > > Do you happen to have a locally-installed mysql in /opt/mysql? If so, it's > possible it is what is causing this. > Rex, I appreciate your suggestion. Unfortunately I do not have anything in /opt/mysql. The only thing in /opt is /opt/Adobe (Adobe Reader.) Nice suggest

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:26 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > [...] > Anyone here got any clue what's going on and why it's not working? > Kmail

Re: KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread Rex Dieter
John Aldrich wrote: > I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still > am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my > KMail. > > Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: > I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Kon

KMail / Akonadi mess

2010-02-25 Thread John Aldrich
I would like to apologize for my tone yesterday but I was (and still am) very frustrated over Fedora updates that appear to have broken my KMail. Here's what I get when I try to run "akonadictl start" from Konsole: I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Konsole, but "akonadictl start" ju