Problems with contacts and calendar in Kontact, Wheezy
t...@timfolger.net
Hi,
I just upgrarded from Squeeze to Wheezy a couple of nights ago, and most things went pretty smoothly. Kontact was a different story. A total mess. Kmail works fine, but the calendar and address book don't work as expected.
First problem: I can't edit contacts in the address book, or add new contacts. Whenever I try to edit a contact to add, say, a phone number or street address, the information isn't saved.
Second problem: calendar entries aren't saved from one session to the next. If I enter an event on the calendar, it's not there next time I restart kontact.
Third problem, really more of an annoyance: Below each contact in the address book there are two big QR codes. From what I've been able to find out online, there is no way to turn this "feature" off in the version of kontact that shipped with Wheezy. One suggested solution was to edit
~/.kde/share/config/akonadi_contacts_resource_0rc to add the following two lines:
[View]
QRCodes=false
That didn't work. But I could live with the QR code if I could just get basic functionality working in Kontact. I've wasted an entire day trying to fix this. I've been using kontact for a few years, and kmail as a stand-alone applicaiton before that, but now I'm strongly considering switching to something a bit more user friendly. I don't see how something this problematic could be included in debian stable.
Diane Trout
What version of korganizer are you using?
$ dpkg --status korganizer
The default version of korganizer in wheezy looks like it should be 4.4.11 and
I'd think should be pretty similar to the one in squeeze (4.4.7)
If you tried installing the kde 4.10 build. Akonadi is sufficiently different I'm
not sure there's a clean way to migrate, other than say export and reload.
Diane
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t...@timfolger.net
I'm using the default kontact and korganizer that came with Wheezy--4.4.11. My whole installation is just standard debian stable. I found this bug report from several months ago that seems relevant to my problem with calendar entries:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305711
And I'm not the only one with the problem. Here's a post from forums.debian.net:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=103846
Regarding the old bug report, I noticed that there is a file called "freebusyurls" in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/korganizer. If I delete that file the calendar entry problem disappears; but the "freebusyurls" file is recreated when I restart kontact--at least I think that is what's happening.
I still have no idea why the address book isn't working.
Stanley Schade
Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, 07:30:53 schrieb t...@timfolger.net:
> [...]
> Wheezy--4.4.11. My whole installation is just standard debian
> stable. I found this bug report from several months ago that seems
> relevant to my problem with calendar entries:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305711
>
> And I'm not the only one with the problem. Here's a post from
> forums.debian.net:
>
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=103846
>
> Regarding the old bug report, I noticed that there is a file called
> "freebusyurls" in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/korganizer. If I delete that
> file the calendar entry problem disappears; but the "freebusyurls"
> file is recreated when I restart kontact--at least I think that is
> what's happening.
a new contact in Kontact with an email address. Only running Kontact,
should not create this file. Can you confirm that? Otherwise you may add
information to the bug report or just report that you experience this
problem as well, anyway. (Although I don't know whether this problem is
still present in newer KDE versions or whether it's Debian specific...)
The presence of the freebusyurls file keeps KOrganizer from opening the
calendar resources. So, at least no data is lost.
As a workaround you can use the address book instead of Kontact.
> I still have no idea why the address book isn't working.
relevant which resources you set up, see System Settings->Personal
Information (as I translated this literally from my native language, the
exact term may differ).
Regards,
Stan
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Kevin Krammer
> Third problem, really more of an annoyance: Below each contact in the
> address book there are two big QR codes. From what I've been able to find
> out online, there is no way to turn this "feature" off in the version of
> kontact that shipped with Wheezy. One suggested solution was to edit
> ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi_contacts_resource_0rc to add the following two
> lines:
> [View]
> QRCodes=false
Cheers,
Kevin
t...@timfolger.net
Thanks for your reply. The freebusyurl file was created again this morning when I booted my computer. I didn't add a new contact of any sort.
> Do you use Kontact or the "stand-alone" address book? Also it may be
> relevant which resources you set up, see System Settings->Personal
> Information (as I translated this literally from my native language, the
> exact term may differ).
I've been using Kontact. If I can't solve these problems I'll see if I can use the stand-alone address book.
In System Settings>Personal Information>Contacts there are two entries: Akonadi-resource Personal, set as standard; and Default Address Book. Both have check marks beside them. The Default Address Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
Might this be causing the problem with Contacts? That is, not being able to edit locations or add new people to my Contacts list?
Thanks for your advice,
Tim
t...@timfolger.net
Thanks, Kevin--I created the akonadi_contactrc file and added
[View]
QRCodes=false
That got rid of the QR code. But the address book itself still isn't functioning--i.e. new locations aren't saved; I can't add new contacts.
Stanley Schade
Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, 20:02:58 schrieb t...@timfolger.net:
> I've been using Kontact. If I can't solve these problems I'll see if
> I can use the stand-alone address book.
> In System Settings>Personal Information>Contacts there are two
> entries: Akonadi-resource Personal, set as standard; and Default
> Address Book. Both have check marks beside them. The Default Address
> Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Might this be causing the problem with Contacts? That is, not being
> able to edit locations or add new people to my Contacts list?
Thus, saving a new contact in Kontact didn't work, but doing so in the
stand-alone address book did work. Good luck!
Regards, Stan
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Martin Steigerwald
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, 20:02:58 schrieb t...@timfolger.net:
> > I've been using Kontact. If I can't solve these problems I'll see if
> > I can use the stand-alone address book.
> > In System Settings>Personal Information>Contacts there are two
> > entries: Akonadi-resource Personal, set as standard; and Default
> > Address Book. Both have check marks beside them. The Default Address
> > Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Might this be causing the problem with Contacts? That is, not being
> > able to edit locations or add new people to my Contacts list?
>
> All I can say is that I am able to reproduce this problem on my system.
> Thus, saving a new contact in Kontact didn't work, but doing so in the
> stand-alone address book did work. Good luck!
addressbook worked nicely. It saves contacts into ~/.local/share/akonadi just
fine.
AFAIR I migrated back then by having a traditional address book with std.vcf
and the personal addressbook (vcard folder) with ~/.local/share/akonadi and
just copied all contacts over. Then I removed the old one.
The address book in KDEPIM 4.4.11 already uses Akonadi.
Korganizer can optionally use Akonadi via a resource bridge. I had it running
with Akonadi, although it was a bit cumbersome to configure. I think I switched
it to Akonadi configuration as I had some issues with the old configuration from
older KDEPIM releases.
Ciao,
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t...@timfolger.net
On Saturday 11 May 2013 5:54:37 PM Stanley Schade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, 20:02:58 schrieb t...@timfolger.net:
> > I've been using Kontact. If I can't solve these problems I'll see if
> > I can use the stand-alone address book.
> > In System Settings>Personal Information>Contacts there are two
> > entries: Akonadi-resource Personal, set as standard; and Default
> > Address Book. Both have check marks beside them. The Default Address
> > Book points to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> > Might this be causing the problem with Contacts? That is, not being
> > able to edit locations or add new people to my Contacts list?
>
> All I can say is that I am able to reproduce this problem on my system.
> Thus, saving a new contact in Kontact didn't work, but doing so in the
> stand-alone address book did work. Good luck!
>
> Regards, Stan
Well, I've solved part of my problem. Following a suggestion from forums.kde.org, I removed my entire akonadi configuration by deleting the following:
~/.local/share/akonadi/
~/.config/akonadi/
~/.kde4/share/config/akonadi*
After rebooting I can now save new addresses and edit old ones in the kontact address book. Unfortunately, whenever I do that the fressbusyurls file is still created in ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer
So it seems that the bug reported here (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305711) remains unfixed in wheezy.
Another person who had this problem posted a solution here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284075
But his solution isn't entirely clear to me. It seems he's suggesting to edit ~/.local/share/contacts and remove the .vcf suffix from all the entries in the contacts directory. Has anyone else tried that? Would doing so create other problems with the address book?
Tim