Since 5.21.2 akonadi and kmail stay offline after suspend or changing network connection.
akonadictl gives:
Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3”
It seems NetworkManager creates a fresh ActiveConnection file and a lot of kde apps relying on network connection think networkmanager is offline because they don’t get informed that there’s a new network connection.
As no one could help us on bugs.kde.org, were giving discuss a try.
Thanks for helping.
Interesting issue, I never encountered it with Fedora with the latest pim, but considering that you are not the only one affected I might have been lucky.
To disable IPv6 via sysctl, place the following into your /etc/sysctl.conf file:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
Don’t forget to comment out any IPv6 hosts in your /etc/hosts file: #::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
But unfortunately it had no effect.
Still the missing active connection
Ok, it seems that pointed me into the right direction! Thank you for that!
add following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar main
sudo pkcon refresh
sudo pkcon install network-manager
sudo service NetworkManager restart
add # in front of the currently added line in /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo pkcon refresh
(Please make sure not to update the whole system, it’ll likely break the whole thing, so don’t forget do comment the lunar repository after updating networkmanager)
(By the way, wo came up with this strange idea to use 3 different names for one thing: network-manager, NetworkManager, networkmanager)
to my sources.list and updated NetworkManager. This seems to work, but it’s a very dirty solution imho.
Still need to do some testing. I’d say this is just a workaround
I can confirm this did not fix the issue. I disabled ipv6, suspended my computer. When I resumed. Kmail was offline as always with the message “No network connection detected, all network jobs are suspended.”
When I look at the journal log, the akonadi resources are trying to look at Active Connection 7, 8 and 9 which do not exist.
Clicking on the mailbox name and clicking “Update this folder and it’s sub folders” does nothing.
The only way to bring all the Kontact resources back online is to issue the akonadictl reset command.
I am very hesitant to try this solution and I perceive a high risk of breaking other things. Is there any safer way to fix this.
There is probably half a dozen open bug reports and a few closed ones as well for this issue going back to 2012. I had them all gathered up in one place a year ago but the issue resolved itself for me a few version ago and got reintroduced again recently. I suspect a lot of users are affected.
I can understand your hesitation - it just upgraded 4 or 5 networkmanager related packages. You can downgrade again, but the chances of having a system without networkmanager and the need of a second laptop with internet connection aren’t low when doing so.
Anyway - it isn’t a solution, just a workaround.
What you can do instead: Close kontact, do a akonadictl restart and start kontact again.
"Das Objekt existiert nicht am Pfad »/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/15«"
edit: ah ok, I think I know why
org.kde.pim.imapresource: Select failed: "Die Verbindung zum Server ist abgebrochen."
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7fc4ec2e1910) )
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber "" disconnected
It now realizes that the connection was reestablished
I’m curious, networkmanager in KDE Neon comes from ubuntu repos, right? So KDE Neon (Jammy) and (K)ubuntu Jammy use the same debs for networkmanager. Problem exists since 5.21 which was availabe on both distros. Afaik this issue never occured in ubuntu but Neon. Neon and Ubuntu don’t use the same debs for KDE Plasma, so it has to be an issue on Neon only, or am I wrong? Isn’t it a packaging issue then?
