Need Help - I hosed my Kontact installation!

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:35 -0400, phillipsm at cox.net wrote:
> I use kontact, and I was trying to set up a remote calendar. I was able to get the remote calendar to work using sftp and then I started looking at webdav. Well, in the process of trying different ways to access the calendar on a remote server, kontact froze and then my pc froze. Upon rebooting, kontact doesn't start and kded starts to use 98% of my CPU cycles. I am running debian Etch and I beleive this is the version of kontact - /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact_4%3a3.5.5.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb. I can't start it to find out!
> 
> Please, if anyone can help, I really need it! All my email, contacts, and calendar entries are in kontact, and I need to get it working again!
> 
> When I run kontact from the command line, this is the ouput:
> mark at narwhale:~$ kontact
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-mark"
> Link points to "/tmp/kde-mark"
> kbuildsycoca running...
> Launched ok, pid = 5298
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action.
> mark at narwhale:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended.
> WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended.
> WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended.
> WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.
> kio_sftp: ERROR: KSshProcess::version(): pclose failed.
> korgac: WARNING: ResourceRemote::load(): download still in progress.
> 
> and then kded consumes 100% of the CPU. The last line keeps pooping up every so often.
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assuming that you restarted or killed off the proper process...

login as root and remove all from /tmp (rm -fr /tmp/*)

report back...
-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>