Ubuntu
kdepim package

kmail fails if ~/.kde4 unavailable

Bug #327236 reported by Tony Green
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kmail

KDE4 on Kubuntu 8.10 has supposedly migrated all user kde files from ~/.kde4 to ~/.kde.

Noticing that some residual ~/.kde4 files and directories had been created, I deleted these. As soon as I did this and tried to use Kmail, it crashed.

Attempting to re-start it, I get a pop-up error:
"KMail could not create folder '/home/tony/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail';
please make sure that you can view and modify the content of the folder '/home/tony'."

This may be in some way related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/324907 which I recently reported, where $KDEHOME was not being set anywhere, though in this case I HAVE set $KDEHOME as ~/.kde.

It would appear that not everything has been moved into ~/.kde after all.

I am using the KDE4.2 packages released recently, Kmail 1.11.0, using KDE4.2.0
Kubuntu 8.10, AMD-64

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Was this an upgrade from Hardy using KDE4? There's a possibility that this is bug 272378.

Changed in kdepim:
status: New → Incomplete
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Tony Green (ubuntu-beermad-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

It was from an upgrade as Jonathan suggested. Not QUITE bug 272378 but evidently related. It was actually because ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc had a line in it saying:

folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail

Correcting that line solved the problem. Looks like another migration problem then.

Revision history for this message
Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

We do not support .kde4 => .kde. We made it pretty clear that Hardy KDE 4 remix was pretty much unsupported and more of a trial project than anything for production use.

Changed in kdepim (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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