Akonadi DB Errors, "Trash" sync hangs forever

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Samstag, 20. Oktober 2018 02:49:30 CEST Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to ask for help.

The right place would have been the kdepim-users mailing list (where I'm 
sending my reply to, with kde-pim as CC; please send further replies to the 
kdepim-users mailing list only). On the kdepim-users mailing list there is a 
nice little community of helpful KMail users.


> I have an Akonadi IMAP resource accessing my own dovecot server, and the
> first sync works great.  However, later synchronizations hang on the "Trash
> folder". I can't stop the synchronization once it is hung by using the
> cancel button in the kontact/kmail task list.

If the problem only occurs for the Trash folder, then I suggest to disable 
automatic synchronization of this folder (under Retrieval in the folder 
properties).


> This prevents new mail from showing up, until I restart Akonadi (restarting
> kmail/kontact doesn't help), and effectively force a synchronization to
> restart with INBOX.
> 
> Console messages pasted here:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/957r7r/ akonadi_postgresql_buster/
> 
> Should I open a bug?

You seem to be using a rather old version of KMail (version 5.2.3 according to 
the header of your email). The current version is (at least) 5.9.1. There have 
been a lot of bugfixes and improvements since 5.2.3.

If easily possible, then you should update to a newer version of KMail. If the 
problem still occurs with an up-to-date version of KMail, then opening a bug 
report makes sense.


> Is there a better recovery method in the meantime?  Am I doing something
> wrong?

It's always helpful to tell the mailing list which version of KMail (and 
Akonadi) you are using.


> Deleting and re-creating the resource seems to make synchronization work for
> a little while, but in less than 72 hours, I get a hang with the same
> symptoms and very similar messages.


Regards,
Ingo
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