[Kde-pim] Breakage on upgrade to 4.4.3

[Raj Mathur]

You folks must be busy ironing out bugs in 4.5, but in the meantime I'd 
like to get my addressbook working again.  The upgrade to 4.4.3 (Debian 
Testing) broke a number of things.

I store my e-mail contacts in a VCard directory (16000+ contacts).  I 
also use kbbdb (http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57937), of which I'm 
the author, to automagically add new addresses to the address book.  
With the upgrade to 4.4.3, the following problems have arisen:

- kaddressbook doesn't allow me to add the VCard directory as a data 
source any more.  After I select Add New Addressbook/VCard directory, it 
waits for a while then barfs with the message:

  Could not add address book: Agent instance creation timed out

- Every time I open Akonadi configuration it shows me a couple more 
address book sources (which I haven't added).  I delete them, then after 
a few hours they're back.  http://imgur.com/De5j8.png

- I now have no clue how to add a VCard file to an address book using 
DBUS.

- KMail is still completing addresses, but I have no idea where it's 
getting the completion list from.  kaddressbook has no address books 
configured (see first point).  There is an address book configured in 
KDE Resources which seems to be the correct one, but I have no clue how 
it got there and how to edit the entries in that address book.

Is it possible, as a user, to throw away Akonadi, Nepomuk and all these 
other wonderful technologies and go back to the simple address book that 
used to exist in KDE 3.x?  It was understandable, it used to work and it 
was stable.

Traces, logs and testing available on request.

Regards,

-- Raj
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