I’m running an up-to-date tumbleweed–kde plasma 5.15.4, frameworks 5.56, Qt5.12.2, kernel 5.07. For some time now I’ve noticed that when I right click on an address in an email I’ve received I can no longer select “add to address book” or “copy email address.” Those options aren’t listed in the menu that opens when you right click the address. What happened to them? They used to be present in previous versions of Kmail.
I don’t see this issue. Dupped today to 20190411 and the links are all there.
Was ‘zypper dup’ used?
Any locked packages that could be related?
On a side note though: I use postgresql as akonadi’s database.
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20190411
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Kernel Version: 5.0.7-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 31,1 GiB
Kmail default installation. All options are listed in the menu.
Thanks for the reply.
Was ‘zypper dup’ used?
Any locked packages that could be related?
I only use ‘zypper dup.’ And I checked for package locks with:
zypper ll
There are no package locks defined.
On a side note though: I use postgresql as akonadi’s database.
Any guidelines for checking which database akonadi uses? I’m generally baffled by akonadi.
Kmail default installation. All options are listed in the menu.
I wonder what’s going on with my setup? Those options used to be there then one day they were gone. I assumed a zypper dup would fix the problem but it hasn’t.
Anything can happen. You may try to find out what happened.
- Does it occur with a new user?
- Did you try forced reinstall of kmail?
- Do you use nonstandard repos?
- …
Does it occur with a new user?
Did you try forced reinstall of kmail?
Do you use nonstandard repos?
Thanks for the suggestions. I had tried forced reinstalls of both kontact and kmail but that didn’t help. I don’t use any non-standard repos.
BUT, when I created a new user the problem disappeared–the missing menu items are there for the new user. And with the new user I also don’t get the “korganizer daemon closed” message. So thanks for that tip–I should have thought of it. What can I do now to get the functionality back for my normal user account?
Could be caused by corrupt entry in ~/.cache. One of the accounts has some 5.000 directories and 100.000 files. Thus I think the fastest procedure is logging out from the user session and delete ~/.cache entirely.
I deleted .cache but unfortunately the problem persists–the missing kmail options are still missing, and korganizer daemon still closes.
Could also be caused by a defective configuration file.
I’ll see if I can write something up re. changing to postgresql. Easiest is when email accounts are IMAP etc. Best experiences are with a clean restart of the entire Kontact suite. Which in my case ( only IMAP, DAV ( Card-, Cal- ) ) connections. I was amazed by the performance difference.
Thanks very much!
Could also be caused by a defective configuration file.
Now the trick is to figure out which one!
One of the logins has 328 rc (163 of these being actually krc) files and many more other configuration files. Nonetheless as a first try I would backup ~/.config/kmail2rc, logout from the graphical login, remove kmail2rc and login again.
I am not sure. Akonadi’s malfunction contributes much to low performance of kmail. With raising background activities and well known annoyances (duplicate messages, errors logged, lost files, indexing looping for ever and more) I used akonadiconsole to clear the cache of folders affected and ran mysql_upgrade. Currently no disk activity is reported for mysql and akonadi. kmail got really fast again.
One of the logins has 328 rc (163 of these being actually krc) files and many more other configuration files. Nonetheless as a first try I would backup ~/.config/kmail2rc, logout from the graphical login, remove kmail2rc and login again.
That worked, thank you! The missing menu options are back. Now I just need to wait for the kde developers to fix the korganizer bug.
Darn. The problem isn’t gone. After logging in this morning the options are missing again! I wonder what’s going on?
This is an interesting issue. I never experienced this with kmail. However changing visibility of items in system tray did kill functionality of system tray menu reproducibly . Nobody cared. But now the problem is gone without changing anything but running ‘zypper dup’.
It is a mysterious problem. Last night I deleted kmail2rc again and so far today the problem has disappeared. I’ve rebooted and logged out a couple of times to see if the problem would reappear but so far so good.
I suggest that you save a copy of “kmail2rc” somewhere else. And then, if the problem shows up again, compare your saved version with the current version (use “diff” for the comparison).