[Kde-pim] Problem syncing kabc with phone

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I am asking this here since I guess someone here write the KDEPIM opensync
> plug-in and I have had no response from the opensync list. I have been
> struggling to sync my new SE P1i, which supports SyncML 1.2 so there should
> be no problem, When I run kitchensync or msynchtool I always get the
> following error:
>
> robin at opal ~ $ msynctool --sync "SE P1i"
> Synchronizing group "SE P1i"
> The previous synchronization was unclean. Slow-syncing
> Member 1 of type kdepim-sync had an error while connecting: Unable to lock
> addressbook for writing.
>
> I have already stopped kontact. I assume the plug-in wants to update
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf, so why cannot it get a write lock?

If you are sure that you do not have any unsaved addressbook data (i.e. all 
respective applications closed), try removing the files 
in .kde/share/apps/kabc/lock

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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