[Kde-pim] KMail seems to loose connection to Akonadi at times

Martin Steigerwald Martin at lichtvoll.de
Sat Nov 1 16:00:01 GMT 2014


Am Samstag, 1. November 2014, 10:36:26 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Hello Pimsters,
> 
> I am using KDEPIM 4.14.2 at the moment and it mostly works quite well.
> Better than others versions before.
> 
> Yet I have one issue: Sometimes it appears to me KMail looses connection to
> Akonadi completely. Then it just sits there, displaying the blue retrieving
> display I do not see often or for long anymore with my POP3 and Dovecot IMAP
> setups at least (with Exchange IMAP at work this is a different story), or
> displaying the wait animation at the folders I click on in the folder list,
> while at the same time Akonadi is doing *nothing*.
> 
> It sits there like this then.
> 
> I can even restart Akonadi, but KMail would still sit there, apparently
> waiting for an Akonadi that at the same time actually is ready to serve.
> 
> Only when I also restart KMail and just closing the window and starting it
> again often is not enough, I need to really make sure the process is gone by
> using killall kmail (with SIGTERM, no SIGKILL needed). Then everything
> works again for quite a while usually.

I also tried out now *just* restarting KMail while leaving Akonadi alone. This 
worked also. I just have to make sure KMail process is gone, closing its main 
application window in that case is not sufficient to achieve this.

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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