KMail 1.9.9 freezes

[Hermann Himmelbauer]

Am Dienstag 02 Juni 2009 21:34:37 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a weird probleme here: On My SuSE 11 distribution, I use KMail
> > 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) with kolab 2.2.2. When I start kmail outside of
> > kontact, it freezes. If I then kill it, kontact opens, whereas KMail
> > is running perfectly inside.
> >
> > If I start Kontact directly, KMail also works - any clue why?
>
> I guess the reason is the following:
> You start KMail; KMail tries to access the address book which is
> residing on the Kolab server; for this the service
> DCOP/ResourceBackend/IMAP is required (because the Kolab server is
> accessed via the IMAP protocol); this service is provided by KMail and
> by Kontact (through the embedded KMail); KDE decides to start Kontact;
> since KMail is already running Kontact hangs on startup -> classical
> dead lock
>
> If you now kill KMail then Kontact resumes the startup which explains
> why Kontact opens.
>
> The only solution for this problem is the removal of the file
> kontactdcop.desktop (which announces that Kontact provides the above
> mentioned service) from the system wide KDE installation. This should
> be /opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/kontactdcop.desktop on openSUSE.
> Obviously, this will affect all users of the system.
 
Yes, that was exactly the problem and the solution, thanks!

Best Regards,
Hermann

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