KMail crashes on startup, even after I deleted the ~kde4 directory. The message is "Failed to fetch the resource collection."
(In reply to comment #0) > KMail crashes on startup, even after I deleted the ~kde4 directory. The > message is "Failed to fetch the resource collection." OK, thx. * Is the akonadi service running? (Check with akonaditray for example) * Is KMail just terminating or is it a real crash? Does drKonqui start and display a backtrace?
# akonaditray QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set akonaditray(13678)/libakonadi Akonadi::AgentManagerPrivate::createDBusInterface: AgentManager failed to get a valid AgentManager DBus interface. Error is: 1 "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner" "Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Control': no such name" After I click the message box "Failed to fetch the resource collection.", kmail terminates. There is no drKonqui instance. Early kde-4 versions worked and imported my 3.5 settings. I've not had kmail working since its akonadi requirement. That's why I tried again after deleting the ~/.kde4 folder.
akonadi stores its data in ~/.local/share/akonadi, some config-files are in ~/.config/akonadi. Does renaming/removing those dirs make kmail start up?
Thanks. Removing ~/.local/share/akonadi directory makes no difference.
akonadiserver.error: Control process died, committing suicide! akonadi_control.error: D-Bus session bus went down - quitting
Actually I got it to work by telling kmail to look under .local/share/local-mail/ which existed for its "resource collection" and it stopped crashing. Now I am trying to get it to send email....
would you believe I have a workaround for this from a linux magazine; a one off. It seems kmail "at first launch will terminate with a 'Failed to fetch the resource collection' error. KMail doesn't have a default incoming mail directory configured. causing this error. The workaround involves using Akonadi to specify a maildir location for KMail. To do this, launch the Akonadi configuration tool and point the Local folders to ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail2" Only ever get 1 of these
*** Bug 397397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #6) > Actually I got it to work by telling kmail to look under > .local/share/local-mail/ > which existed for its "resource collection" and it stopped crashing. Confirming workaround. "Personal Calendar" and "Invitations" also have no file configured, though that does only cause annoying "unable to fetch from backend" messages, but no crashes. "Personal Contacts" and "Notes" have default directories(!) configured.
(In reply to comment #9) > "Personal Calendar" and "Invitations" also have no file configured, though that > does only cause annoying "unable to fetch from backend" messages, but no > crashes. Those messages have another cause and were not fixed by adding the files to Personal Calendar and Invitations. Since the dialogue boxes don't describe who is telling me this, I can't know the cause.
I fear we can't do much here. This was a typical upgrade problem, caused by the switch to more akonadi modules in kdepim... Once you have fixed it, things should be ok. If you want, you can report it upstream (but probably now it's too late).
