Re: Screwed up migration and KMail won't run!

"O. Sinclair" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22/11/2011 12:46, John Aldrich wrote:
> Quoting Anne Wilson <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Start from SystemSettings -> Personal Information and check what
>> resources are
>> set up and where each one points to. If you have duplicate resources,
>> remove
>> one of them (but do check carefully that they really are duplicates).
>> Your
>> mail should be still exactly where it was before - akonadi does not
>> touch the
>> originals, merely indexing them in a database. Use Dolphin to make
>> sure that
>> you know where the messages are, and point the resource to that folder.
>>
>> Also, use Ctrl-Esc, type Kontact and/or KMail into the search bar (with
>> Kontact closed of course) and make sure that no running processes
>> exist before
>> you try again. Test your fixes by running KMail as a separate application
>> before trying Kontact.
>>
> Negative. The exact error is "Kmail encountered a fatal error and will
> terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection."
>
> I did what you suggested and the only dupe was the "personal contacts"
> and I verified that it was truly a dupe, so I deleted one of them.
> _______________________________________________
I had the same problem, am struggling like mad here with new 
install/upgrade. Solved by trying various tricks from this thread:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259355

good luck you are gonna need it...

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