Greetings. I dug quite a bit into KMail and Akonadi internals, but I did not know about this directory before.
Since today morning KMail 26.04.3 aka 6.7.3 did not start anymore on one of my user accounts while it started just fine on a different user account. This is on an up-to-date Devuan Ceres – which is based on Debian Sid – with self-compiled kernel 7.2. After trying a lot of different things, I finally removed the directory ~/.local/share/kmail2 and its contents. I contained a ton of stuff including: - ai-database/roompendingtypedinfo/pendingtypedinfo.sqlite - libreoffice/4/user/autocorr/acor_de-DE.dat And a lot of other stuff. Not being able to use KMail on this user account for almost a day, I took the plunge and just removed the directory. Then KMail started without issues. Command line output just: org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running: 1 Which is incorrect, cause I am using Plasma activities. And I have /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kactivitymanagerd in process list. Before when it did not start it was: org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running: 1 kf.sonnet.core: Unable to handle language from dictionary "ko_KR" "ko_KR" kf.sonnet.core: Unable to handle language from dictionary "gug" "C" kf.sonnet.core: Unable to handle language from dictionary "kmr_Latn" "C" kf.coreaddons: "Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/ plugins/pim6/kmail/plugineditor/kmail_autogenerateanswerseditorplugin.so: Die Bibliothek /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/pim6/kmail/ plugineditor/kmail_autogenerateanswerseditorplugin.so kann nicht geladen werden: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/pim6/kmail/plugineditor/ kmail_autogenerateanswerseditorplugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN20TextAutoGenerateText28TextAutoGenerateMessageUtils17convertTextToHtmlERK7QStringRK10QByteArrayS3_Rii" I know it would have been beneficial to just move the directory to a different place and then try which file was causing the issue, but I was just feed up with it and so I removed it. The symbol not found error did not terminate kmail. The process was still lingering around. Waiting in process state S. I also posted this on kdepim-users. But if anyone here ever has a problem with KMail not started it might help here as well. Also in the not starting case there was this undefined symbol issue which might hint at an issue with Debian packaging. Best, -- Martin - please no carbon copy to me
