[Akonadi] [Bug 418727] akonadi_migration_agent "In progress" dialog never goes away

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418727

--- Comment #5 from roland at logikalsolutions.com ---
(In reply to Torsten Maehne from comment #4)
> I am observing this issue regularly after updates to KDE Plasma packages on
> Arch Linux. On next reboot, SDDM typically takes much longer than usual to
> show up. After successful login, I observe a black screen with blinking
> cursor. If I wait long enough, finally the KDE Plasma desktop will show up
> with the akonadi_migration_agent "In progress" dialogue spinning. With that
> dialogue active, KDE Plasma seems to have also trouble to cleanly logout the
> session, shutdown, or reboot the computer. If one tries to work in that
> session, I observed freezes of applications after a short time, which
> normally run without issues, namely Firefox, Thunderbird, and Libreoffice.
> 
> In the past rebooting typically helped to make the issue go away until the
> next update of KDE Plasma packages. However today, the issue would persist
> even after several reboots. Only removing ~/.cache in a console session
> before logging in via SDDM into KDE Plasma (Wayland session) helped. KDE
> Plasma is at version 6.3.2 currently on Arch Linux.

Having come up on real computers with real operating systems where actual
Software Engineering (not Agile) and physical QA teams (not TDD) were used, I
am always mortified at the roughly 99% of PC applications that can't bother to
clear their disk cache on startup. Adding insult to injury, the format of the
files changes between updates, new software is never tested with the old cache
format and doesn't check for it, then all sorts of gastric intestinal
application issues happen after an update is pushed out.

If the software development process can't be fixed, at least fix the update
process so it closes the application and nukes the cache before applying the
update.

Cache is meant only for the current running instance, not for saving settings
between runs.

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