[Bug 709416] Re: Transition from 8.04 to 10.10 causes loss of contacts

[David Bensimon]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: kdepim
  
  Transition from 8.04 to 10.10 causes loss of contacts
+ 
+ kmail - transition from 8.04 to 10.10 caused kmail to be undertaken by
+ akonadi (moving contacts to a database instead of a flat file) and
+ nepomuk (converting/making changes) which were not able to convert
+ contact information properly. The result is that kaddressbook and
+ kontact now look for a database, and could not show contact information.
+ Kmail which is still looking at contacts contained within vcf files was
+ the only want to see the contacts (although it does not allow to export
+ them). Have now moved contacts to thunderbird which is somewhat better.
+ Lists had to be recreated manually in Thunderbird. See screenshots as
+ well as reports/logs for details.
+ 
+ I could confirm the following community member statements.
+ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1595715
+ -"after a few seconds I get an error popup: Akonadi Server Self-Test - Kmail and it fails"
+ -"I dropped the database and akonadi rebuilt it. Works fine now."
+ -"I used phpmyadmin, root login and did a 'drop database' on akonadi."
+ -"it's not something that can be easily explained"
+ -"the authors of akonadi ever planed for manual intervention like I did"
+ 
+ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1637111
+ -"most of my contacts in it appear empty (yes, empty lines)"
+ -"the "Save as list" button in kmail doesn't actually save the list -- it doesn't show up in Kontacts at all"
+ -"All my groups disappear from the address book. This was also happening under KDE 4.4 and 4.5. Akonadi/Nepomuk drives me crazy!!!"
+ -"I did the full monty and blew away the .kde folder in home to start from scratch."
+ 
+ You should not have end users using phpmyadmin to drop database so that
+ kmail, kontact and kaddressbook work properly. You should not have to
+ start from scratch simply because a new version of the software has been
+ released. Quality of kdepim recently is lower than beta and cannot be
+ seen as stable software. It seems the the kdepim stack was not even QA'd
+ properly.
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: kdepim 4:4.4.6-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.35.10
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jan 28 13:49:15 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANG=en_US.utf8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANG=en_US.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: kdepim

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Title:
  Transition from 8.04 to 10.10 causes loss of contacts