[solved] Kwallet / Kmail / Akonadi failure on MGA6 migration
Posted: Sep 12th, '17, 18:09First off, thank you to all who worked hard to finally produce MGA6. I am looking forward to migrating to it and continuing to use Mageia for the forseeable future. However...
My first attempt to start using MGA6 was ultimately not successful. I was successfully using MGA5 (love it!). However, I did not simply upgrade from 5 using my existing disk, but rather made a clean install on a new drive. Then, I rsynced all of my home directory contents from the old drive to the new drive prior to the first launch of KDE.
The problem that stops me from continuing is that Kmail does not work. In the left pane, I can see a list of my folders and a display of the number of unread emails. In the top right pane, I see the list of messages, which has some information visible (sender, date, subject, etc.). However, the bottom right pane (where the message contents should be displayed) says "Retrieving Folder Contents... please wait" and notification pops up saying "Resource KMail Folders is broken." Attempt to do anything meaningful in KMail results in the "busy" bar (at the bottom right) activating indefinitely.
I believe this may be somehow related to Kwallet not working. When I first booted it asked me to create a new wallet. I vaguely recall something about Kwallet from MGA5, and I somehow made it work without requiring further input from me. On searching the forums here, I discovered that others have had similar problems. I tried copying the kwalletrc file and kdewallet.kwl and kdewallet.salt files to seemingly appropriate locations. Kwallet did appear to find the wallet but nothing I attempted allowed me to open it (wrong password). I do not need to input a password on MGA5, so I'm not sure how to fix that problem now on MGA6.
When I started this process, Akonadi began some oddball indexing process. For an hour or so, it appeared to index some of my mail folders (maybe not all of them?). It has finished that. The Akonadi Console now shows KMail Folders as "Ready" (green light), however, Kmail doesn't seem able to access it. Also, much of my kmail configuration is missing. I tried coping kmail2rc from the kde4 directory to ~/.config and that made no improvement. Notably the message identities are missing (only one empty one remains).
Due to time constraints, I have to go back to MGA5 now to accomplish work. Any tips on getting 6 running correctly (specifically mail) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
V-
My first attempt to start using MGA6 was ultimately not successful. I was successfully using MGA5 (love it!). However, I did not simply upgrade from 5 using my existing disk, but rather made a clean install on a new drive. Then, I rsynced all of my home directory contents from the old drive to the new drive prior to the first launch of KDE.
The problem that stops me from continuing is that Kmail does not work. In the left pane, I can see a list of my folders and a display of the number of unread emails. In the top right pane, I see the list of messages, which has some information visible (sender, date, subject, etc.). However, the bottom right pane (where the message contents should be displayed) says "Retrieving Folder Contents... please wait" and notification pops up saying "Resource KMail Folders is broken." Attempt to do anything meaningful in KMail results in the "busy" bar (at the bottom right) activating indefinitely.
I believe this may be somehow related to Kwallet not working. When I first booted it asked me to create a new wallet. I vaguely recall something about Kwallet from MGA5, and I somehow made it work without requiring further input from me. On searching the forums here, I discovered that others have had similar problems. I tried copying the kwalletrc file and kdewallet.kwl and kdewallet.salt files to seemingly appropriate locations. Kwallet did appear to find the wallet but nothing I attempted allowed me to open it (wrong password). I do not need to input a password on MGA5, so I'm not sure how to fix that problem now on MGA6.
When I started this process, Akonadi began some oddball indexing process. For an hour or so, it appeared to index some of my mail folders (maybe not all of them?). It has finished that. The Akonadi Console now shows KMail Folders as "Ready" (green light), however, Kmail doesn't seem able to access it. Also, much of my kmail configuration is missing. I tried coping kmail2rc from the kde4 directory to ~/.config and that made no improvement. Notably the message identities are missing (only one empty one remains).
Due to time constraints, I have to go back to MGA5 now to accomplish work. Any tips on getting 6 running correctly (specifically mail) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
V-