openSUSE 11.2/Kernel 2.6.33-29.1.x86_64
KDE 4.4.1 "release 227"
Akregator 1.6.1

For quite a while now (several versions at least) Akregator has not been remembering articles across sessions. Number of articles shown is 0 (that is zero) upon starting Akregator. I have to fetch feeds in Akregator to "get my articles back".

Strangely, when I do that the number of articles in the Total column is incorrect (they aren't counted correctly). However, if I click 'Refresh All Feeds" again then count gets corrected.

I think it has something to do with archiving. I have Akregator set to 'Keep all articles". The only option for archive backends that I have is Metakit but if I choose Metakit the change is never remembered. If I go back to the archive backend option it shows "No Archive" again.

Anyone know if this a known problem or what might be causing it?

Can you please check that ~/.kde4/share/config/akregatorrc is writable? Also make sure that ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator and its subfolders is writable too.

I doubt it is related to config files because as I said, I'm fairly sure its related to archiving.

However, I checked the permissions of the files & directories you mentioned and they are all as they should be.

When you start Akregator from the command line, do you see any references to "Metakit"?

Moved to Office & Productivity as Kontact topics (so Akregator topics, too) should go there.

bcooksley wrote:When you start Akregator from the command line, do you see any references to "Metakit"?

i did not. here is the output:

http://pastie.org/865672

JanGerrit wrote:Moved to Office & Productivity as Kontact topics (so Akregator topics, too) should go there.

oops. my apologies. i forgot.

echoes wrote:I checked the permissions of the files & directories you mentioned and they are all as they should be.

Not wanting to insult your intelligence, but could you give us the output anyway?

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ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/|grep akr

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ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator

It just doesn't appear to make sense otherwise... Or you have some weird and wonderful cronjob that wipes your akregator directory? Talking of which, observe the creation date of the directories in ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator and see whether any of that is of use.

You should see a reference to Metakit... it looks like the problem is probably in your installation.

toad wrote:Not wanting to insult your intelligence, but could you give us the output anyway?

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ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/|grep akr

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ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator

no offense taken. here is the output:

ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/ | grep akr
drwx------ 3 echoes users 4096 2010-03-11 13:52 akregator

ls -la ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator
total 28
drwx------ 3 echoes users 4096 2010-03-11 13:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 echoes users 4096 2010-02-27 13:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 echoes users 5093 2010-01-07 19:52 akregator_part.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 echoes users 2119 2010-03-03 16:31 akregator_shell.rc
-rw------- 1 echoes users 81 2010-03-11 13:52 autosaved
drwx------ 2 echoes users 4096 2010-03-11 22:25 data

bcooksley wrote:You should see a reference to Metakit... it looks like the problem is probably in your installation.

well thats my thought exactly but i tried deleting the config files and even tried uninstalling & reinstalling akregator all to no avail so even if i did know for sure that it is a database/archiving problem, it doesn't help me unless i know what to do.

i do have metakit installed btw: metakit-2.4.9.7-0.pm.6.1.x86_64

Bingo, WHERE on earth is your ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator/Archive? Without an Archive directory no archive

Me wonders whether this is worth a bug report. Expected behaviour would be to create one if it weren't there from the start...

Does$KDEDIRlib/kde4/akregator_mk4storage_plugin.so exist? The archive folder probably won't exist if the plugin can't be found...

bcooksley wrote:Does$KDEDIRlib/kde4/akregator_mk4storage_plugin.so exist? The archive folder probably won't exist if the plugin can't be found...

it indeed exists.

Well, have you tried to get akregator to behave normally?

Should you resort to removing all traces I find that keeping a backup copy of ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator/data/feeds.opml is useful - if you've set up all your feeds that is.

Does /usr/share/kde4/services/akregator_mk4storage_plugin.desktop exist?

toad wrote:Well, have you tried to get akregator to behave normally?

Should you resort to removing all traces I find that keeping a backup copy of ~/.kde4/share/apps/akregator/data/feeds.opml is useful - if you've set up all your feeds that is.

(i already have that file backed up & i back it up routinely).

i don't mean to be rude, but i have already said that i have tried removing all config files related to akregator.

bcooksley wrote:Does /usr/share/kde4/services/akregator_mk4storage_plugin.desktop exist?

yes, this file exists as well.