Kontact Unresponsive once Started

I am running KDE 4.4.4 Stable from the openSuSE Repository for KDE 4.4.4 stable as included with 11.3.

At first after initial installation Kontact worked and I could access Email, Address Book, Calendar, etc. from the icon bar.

Now, Kontact starts, opens the Summary page, but no selections respond, only the Kwin responds to terminate the application, it just seems to hang and has to be killed to terminate.

Anyone have similar issue or ideas on what may be causing it? I can start KMail, Kaddressbook, as separate applications and all respond as normal.

Thanks for any help.

  • DMCorsa,

try launching kontact from within a console and check the console output for errors.
A first approach would be renaming your ~/.kde4/share/config/kontactrc and restart kontact.

Uwe

Thanks. I renamed the kontactrc files and launched from console. The summary page does display and it is correct, but then nothing responds, menu, icons, etc. Pressing the X to close the window finally brings up the terminate konsole message which is the only way it will die. I’ve attached the output from console mode below.

dmc55@dmcLinux0:~> cd .kde4/share/config
dmc55@dmcLinux0:~/.kde4/share/config> ls kontact*
kontactrc kontact_summaryrc
dmc55@dmcLinux0:~/.kde4/share/config> mv kontactrc kontactrc.org
dmc55@dmcLinux0:~/.kde4/share/config> mv kontact_summaryrc kontact_summaryrc.org
dmc55@dmcLinux0:~/.kde4/share/config> kontact
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files”
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name”
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files”
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name”
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files”
“/usr/bin/kontact(12548)” Error in thread 140376495007584 : “QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name”
kontact(12548)/kdeui (kdelibs): No such XML file “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kontact/local-kmail.rc”
kontact(12548)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn’t know “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kabc”
kontact(12548)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn’t know “/home/dmc55/Documents/Home Office Info”
kontact(12548)/kdeui (kdelibs): No such XML file “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kontact/local-calendar.rc”
kontact(12548)/kdeui (kdelibs): No such XML file “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kontact/local-todo.rc”
<unknown program name>(12553)/ main: Unknown resource type: “notes”
kontact(12548)/kdeui (kdelibs): No such XML file “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kontact/local-.rc”
kontact(12548)/kdeui (kdelibs): No such XML file “/home/dmc55/.kde4/share/apps/kontact/default-.rc”
dmc55@dmcLinux0:~/.kde4/share/config> kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3://mcorsa@pop-server.cfl.rr.com:110/index”) data size = 9
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3s://dmcorsa%40gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995/index”) data size = 0
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3s://cmdone1%40gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995/index”) data size = 0
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3://mcorsa@pop-server.cfl.rr.com:110/uidl”) data size = 36
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3://mcorsa@pop-server.cfl.rr.com:110/download/”) data size = 0
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3s://dmcorsa%40gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995/uidl”) data size = 0
kontact(12548)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotData: mimetype() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = KUrl(“pop3s://dmcorsa%40gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995/download/”) data size = 0

Thanks for the reply.

Any other thoughts on why this may be happening? I moved kontactrc and kontactsummaryrc to start fresh, and still it hangs. All the components appear to work fine separately, KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressbook, etc.

Update. I updated to KDE 4.5 from the openSuSE factory repositories and the problem went away. Kontact now responds normally.