Trying to start kmail on a 12.04.2 install

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult "Unknown error. (Could not
> create collection inbox resourceId: 2)"
> kmail2(6840) MailCommon::Kernel::emergencyExit: "KMail encountered a
> fatal error and will terminate now.
> The error was:
> Could not create collection inbox resourceId: 2"
> ====================================
> 
> Looks like a mysql thing?

I'm not sure, but to me it looks more like kmail (or is it akonadi?) has 
problems creating something like the standard folders for the maildir 
tree. Considering your perms problems mentioned below, I would suggest 
to care about those first. You could make sure that you own everything 
in your $HOME with the command

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME

where you don't have to replace SUSER or $HOME because they are known to 
the shell already.


> Now, bear in mind that in this case /home is a half terrabyte
> partition on a different new drive, mounted via fstab using defaults.
>  Here are those 2 lines from the ubu12.4.2/etc/fstab:
> UUID=748b01e1-ae7b-4b17-b8e9-c88429bcefbf /opt	ext4 	defaults	0
> 0
> UUID=7601432d-7a30-42a3-80b5-57f08ae71f2a /home	ext4	defaults	0
> 0
> 
> Am I losing my write perms with the above?

No, the perms should come from the file system of your /home folder, not 
from the place where the partition is mounted. But could it be that your 
$HOME partition is mounted ro due to errors?

Finally, if you have write access to your $HOME again and the kmail 
error persists, I would suggest to ask on the kubuntu-users [1] or 
kdepim-users [2] lists for help with the kmail problem.


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users>
[2] <https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users>