Re: KMail locks up

On Tuesday 15 June 2010, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue June 15 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > It is absolutely proper behavior. Akonadi is a background service
> > that is completely independent of KMail. KAddressBook and
> > KOrganizer also use Akonadi and I guess you wouldn't want to start
> > KMail every time you want to look up an address (in KAddressBook)
> > or put an appointment in your calendar (in KOrganizer). The event
> > notifier (korgac) also uses Akonadi. I suppose you would want to
> > be reminded about upcoming appointments even if KMail was not
> > running.
> > 
> > Maybe reading
> > 
> >   http://community.kde.org/Promo/Strategy/Akonadi
> > 
> > will help clear up what Akonadi is and what it is not.
> 
> Well, considering I don't open KAB separately from KMail and don't
> use Korganizer or anything else, except KMail (I really have no need
> for a full Outlook "clone" at home.)
> 
> At this point inertia has set in enough that I don't want to change
> email clients, but if this keeps happening, I might have to. I
> certainly do not want to lose my existing emails.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that it's proper for Akonadi to hose things
> up when I don't shut it down at the end of the day.

Of course, that's not proper behavior. It's a bug in Akonadi.


> Either Akonadi needs to share resources or it needs to shut down when
> the X session started by VNC gets shut down.

IMO the former is the correct solution. Shutting down Akonadi shouldn't 
be necessary. Instead Akonadi needs to be fixed. Please file a bug 
report for this if you haven't done so already.


Regards,
Ingo

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