[kdepim-users] Screwed up migration and KMail won't run!

John Aldrich jmaldrich at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 22 10:46:11 GMT 2011


Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
>
> Start from SystemSettings -> Personal Information and check what   
> resources are
> set up and where each one points to.  If you have duplicate resources, remove
> one of them (but do check carefully that they really are duplicates).  Your
> mail should be still exactly where it was before - akonadi does not touch the
> originals, merely indexing them in a database.  Use Dolphin to make sure that
> you know where the messages are, and point the resource to that folder.
>
> Also, use Ctrl-Esc, type Kontact and/or KMail into the search bar (with
> Kontact closed of course) and make sure that no running processes   
> exist before
> you try again.  Test your fixes by running KMail as a separate application
> before trying Kontact.
>
Negative. The exact error is "Kmail encountered a fatal error and will  
terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection."

I did what you suggested and the only dupe was the "personal contacts"  
and I verified that it was truly a dupe, so I deleted one of them.
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