kmail in 12.04.3 LTS won't start

[O. Sinclair]

On 08/02/14 09:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 08 February 2014 02:54:47 O. Sinclair did opine:
>
>> On 08/02/14 08:00, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> On 08/02/14 05:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> We went through this last july when I first tried to migrate to 12.04
>>>> LTS,
>>>> and AFAICR I never got an answer that changed anything then.  And its
>>>> a show stopper for me unless I can figure out how to make claws-mail
>>>> either import or see the kmail, mostly maildir directories.  It does
>>>> see the folders, but they are empty as far as claws-mail is
>>>> concerned.
>>>>
>>>> The kmail error is
>>>> Could not create inbox resourceId:2
>>>>
>>>> Video is close to totally useless here, so I swapped drives and
>>>> rebooted to
>>>> 12.04.3 LTS again, did the full update catchup, hundred files or so,
>>>> then poked around in the prefs and found a color scheme my eyes
>>>> could tolerate,
>>>> and Oxygen with that over bright cyan halo around everything sure
>>>> ain't it.
>>>>
>>>> Fired up firefox, all the news site videos I tried to play worked
>>>> well, so
>>>> that alone makes it worth while to pursue the upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> I had previously copied, back in 7/2013 the full $HOME/Mail tree to
>>>> the new
>>>> drive thinking that ought to make the new kmail at least run, but
>>>> while I own the whole $HOME tree, its all no permissions or similar.
>>>>
>>>> So what is the next thing to check?  And what the heck IS resourceId:
>>>> 2 talking about?
>>>
>>> I would have a look at the "import manually" part of this page:
>>> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2
>>>
>>> I remember renaming my mail folder to something like oldmail, starting
>>> a completely "empty" KMail, set up accounts and then import the old
>>> mails.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Sinclair
>>
>> you and others who dislike the akonadi/nepomuk may also consider this
>> ppa: https://launchpad.net/~pali/+archive/kdepim-noakonadi
>>
>> I have not tried it myself but others who have report that it works as
>> "old KMail" did. Clearly you then have to live with no development done
>> and no bugs fixed.
>
> Which is no better than the 1.13.5 I am using ATM.  Which apparently uses
> akonadi/nepomuck, along with libsuprano and virtuoso-t, except I see log
> messages that at least on of them has been segfaulting at startx time for
> months if not years.
>
this ppa version use akonadi/nepomuk only for Contacts. As noted, I am 
not using it myself, I am on version 4.10.5 and reasonably happy. 
Meaning it works but I wish things like HTML composing would work better 
and at times my laptop gets eaten alive cpu and RAM wise by virtuoso