Re: kaddressbook stopped working (Squeeze)

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Hi Kevin,

Am Dienstag 18 September 2012, 17:35:04 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> On Tuesday, 2012-09-18, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Your assumption is correct, when kaddressbook crashes through
> > starting akonadi, the process hangs and it seems it is in the saved
> > session. If I kill the kaddressbook process (kill <pid>), then it is not
> > started.
> > 
> > With respect to the kaddressbook problem this makes no difference
> > though:
> > -> kaddressbook tries to start akonadi
> > -> akonadi is started, but kaddressbook does not display an
> > addressbook
> > -> exiting kaddressbook, leaves a kaddressbook process
> > -> restarting kaddressbook is only possible if I kill the old process
> > manually, but then it restart correctly with my addressbook.
> 
> This sounds like a KAddressBook problem or something KAddressBook
> "inherits" through KDE PIMl libraries.
> Seems Akonadi starts correctly (simply restarting KAddressBook makes it
> work), but KAddressBook seems to hang waiting for that startup.

I agree with all you wrote (though I cannot judge the statement on the KDEPIM 
libraries)

> If you are using the digital clock applet for Plasma, you could try
> enabling it's calendar integration just to see if KAddressBook starts
> correctly if something else is starting Akonadi before it gets to that.

Hmm...how would I do that? (screenshot attached)

But would it work better than the Autostart script? Or would it prove 
something we do not know yet for sure?

Do you suggest to open a bugreport against kaddressbook?

Thanks,
Rainer