I am in need of someone who understands how the various KDE components interact to debug a problem that I likely created for myself.
Some background: I wanted to get my mariadb installation on F43 running 11.8 before the upgrade to F44 so that I could make sure my MythTV installation still worked OK.
There were a few hurdles, but I eventually got MariadB updated by removing a few packages which relied on some mysql/mariadb packages because of conflicts between mariadb and mariadb11.8 packages in F43.
A short while later I upgrade to F44 beta and reinstalled the packages which had conflicts because of requiring mariadb (default mariadb installation) instead of mariadb-any, which prevented those packages from considering mariadb11.8 acceptable.
Since mariadb 11.8 is the default package in F44 no problems, and I reinstalled what I thought was everything, but now I find kmail cannot start properly.
When starting from a terminal I get these messages:
$ kmail
org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running: 1
org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Job error: “” for collection: QList()
org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Job error: “” for collection: QList()
org.kde.pim.messagelist: Failed to load tags “”
org.kde.pim.kmail: “”
org.kde.pim.mailcommon: failed to retrieve tags “”
I have plasma activities installed:
$ dnf info plasma-activities
Installed packages
Name : plasma-activities
Epoch : 0
Version : 6.6.4
Release : 1.fc44
Architecture : x86_64
Eventually kmail puts up a message that “A required background service is not operatioinal.”
Anyone recognize what I am missing to let kmail find all the configuration information it needs to start and find my existing mail files?
I worked with you a bit on your last topic about upgrading mariadb.
The final release of f44 is still 3 days away (April 28th) and what you have installed is likely only the initial release software since there are not yet any packages in the f44 updates repo. After f44 is finally released you should be able to perform an upgrade and update many packages, including about 20 that are directly related to mariadb (some of which are still in the f44 updates-testing repo)
Which kernel are you presently running? The release version of the kernel for f44 is 6.19.10 while 6.19.13 is already released and 6.19.14 is in testing.
Your messages above from kmail indicate that a needed service is not running. I am not using kde, nor am I using kmail but troubleshooting requires detailed info. Is Plasma-activities a service on kde? Might that be the culprit?
It may be that the info you require can be found by using journalctl and looking through the logs, or possibly using journalctl --follow in a terminal then trying to start kmail while watching the messages that are being logged to see details of why it is failing.
I installed packages from updates-testing on the expectation that those were likely what would be current very soon.
I believe it is, but I do not understand well enough the relationship between all the various pieces in KDE to know how to debug why that service is not starting.
I may check if KDE has a forum, perhaps directly to the KDE community would be a route to find someone more familiar with the specifics of the KDE personal information manager hierarchy (I believe kmail falls under that group of programs).
I ran dnf distro-sync today, and as I hoped there were very few packages which needed to be changed, the packages in updates-testing last week were almost all the same as the release packages today.