Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to go with this, but i have looked around and didin't found any better place, or a solution

when i launch kontact, it wont open.

When i launch it from a konsole, i get this message

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:~$ kontact
<unknown program name>(7877)/: Communication problem with  "kontact" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "

I was having the same issue with amarok.. I deleted the ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok folder and now amarok works.. but I would like not to lose e-mails OR e-mail configuration..

I'm using kubuntu 9.10 with kde 4.3.95 (4.4 RC2) from the PPA repos.

any ideas? thanks in advance

since you are using the preview of kde 4.4, it is possible you ran into a bug.

about the configuration, your e-mails are stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail and your e-mail configuration is stored in ~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc

so you can safely move ~/.kde/share/config/kontactrc out of the way to see if that helps.

if you are worried about loosing your configuration, you can always rename the file and rename it back to its original name as a test.

but make sure the corresponding application isn't running at that moment, or else it will overwrite your changes with the last used configuration on close.

There are several possible causes here, depending on versions from your distro. The first thing I'd check is to open System Activity (krunner and click the icon to the left of the input area), enter kontact in the search field, and kill it if it appears. It's possible that a stub is still active.

In some versions, there is a problem with korganizer. If you normally use month-mode, kontact will not start up. The cure is to look for the view mode in korganizerrc and simply remove the line, then ensure that you use week-view until getting the next update. However, I would not expect this to be the problem in 4.4 RC2.

Finally, RC2 uses akonadi with KAddressbook. I don't know whether it is so in all distros, but in Fedora at least akonadi does not start automatically as it should. It's a known problem, and being worked upon. The cure for that is to use the akonadi tray icon to start akonadi, before starting Kontact. The setting will (normally )persist throughout your session.

As a side-issue, if you find that you have addressbook problems, the known problems and cures are documented at http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Common_Problems

well, after starting akonadi tray, kontact showed up.. looks like it was waiting for akonadi.

Thank you very much

I'm having the same problem, but I've got KDE SC 4.4 released version running on on Kubuntu 9.10. I can launch KMail and KAddressBook by themselves, but Kontact still returns the "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" error when I launch it from a console. I've removed and reinstalled Kontact 4.4 to no avail. Since this is a release, either it's still a bug, or there's a fix I'm not aware of.

I do know that when I added the backport for this release to my source list and performed the upgrade to 4.4, it missed plasma-desktop and a bunch of other packages, so I'm thinking the upgrade wasn't put together too well on Ubuntu's part. But since this post was already here and had recent activity, I thought I'd try here first.

Am I missing some other package still, or is this still an unresolved bug?

Can you please check to see if Kontact is already running, and that Akonadi and Nepomuk are functional?

If kontact has crashed bits of if may be left behind. Run System Activity Monitor to see if this is so, and kill them if it is.

Kontact will not run without akonadi, and akonadi needs nepomuk. Read http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Common_Problems and try the solutions that seem to fit your case. If you have an existing nepomuk database you will need to remove it. The instructions are on that page.

annew wrote:If kontact has crashed bits of if may be left behind. Run System Activity Monitor to see if this is so, and kill them if it is.

Kontact will not run without akonadi, and akonadi needs nepomuk. Read http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Common_Problems and try the solutions that seem to fit your case. If you have an existing nepomuk database you will need to remove it. The instructions are on that page.

Kontact isn't running, and won't launch. And yes, Akonadi and Nepomuk are both running. What else should I look for?

Rebuild the database, for a start. Do read that page. There's a lot there to help you.