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hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Hi,

I've installed KAlarm

$ sudo apt install kalarm

When I start it, this message is displayed:
"Le service de gestion des données personnelles n'est pas opérationnel."
When I start it from the command line I get more messages:

org.kde.pim.kidentitymanagement: IdentityManager: There was no default identity. Marking first one as default.
org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Unable to execute akonadi_control, falling back to D-Bus auto-launch

I searched on the web and it seems to be related to Akonadi.
I found only these Akonadi-related packages are installed:

akonadi-contacts-data/stable,stable,now 4:18.08.3-1 all  [installé, automatique]
akonadi-mime-data/stable,stable,now 4:18.08.3-1 all  [installé, automatique]

I'm not sure if I have to manually install something more and I prefer to ask instead of making trial/errors.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by hchiper (2021-05-09 13:11)

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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Open dolphin(I assume you're using Plasma), and navigate to .configkde, inside locate akonadi folder, inside akonadi folder find akonadiserverrc file, open it and look for the line that reads StartServer and check that its value is set to true, if it's not, then edit it to make it so. Then restart akonadi service. Honestly though, in my experience the whole PIM stack is a whole mess and don't work most of the time. https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Thanks for your reply.
I found no akonadi folder in my personal folder, neither useing KFind (with subfolders and hidden files enabled) nor with

~$ find anakondi

When I installed KAlarm, I didn't notice any message about a missing dependency...
Having said that, I just want to have a program allowing me to define alarms. Any suggestion other than KAlarm would be welcome.

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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Thanks for your reply.
I found no akonadi folder in my personal folder, neither useing KFind (with subfolders and hidden files enabled) nor with

~$ find anakondi

When I installed KAlarm, I didn't notice any message about a missing dependency...
Having said that, I just want to have a program allowing me to define alarms. Any suggestion other than KAlarm would be welcome.

I don't know your requirements for such a program since you didn't mention, but if all you need is to set a basic alarm, I've used two:
QTalarm https://github.com/CountMurphy/QTalarm
Alarm clock http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com/

To install QTalarm

sudo apt-get install qtalarm

Alarm lock sin't available in Buster, so you'll need to download the .deb file for Stretch, previous Debian's version https://pkgs.org/download/alarm-clock-applet once you do, install with

sudo apt install ./alarm-clock-applet_0.3.4-1+b1_amd64.deb

I'm currently using alarm clock since it's easier to use and very light on resources. QTalarm is also a good program, maybe install the 2 and see which one you like the best.

Last edited by Tolkem (2021-05-08 16:54)

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Thanks Tolkem.
I dropped KAlarm. My preference goes to alarm-clock.

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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Thanks Tolkem.
I dropped KAlarm. My preference goes to alarm-clock.

You're welcome! Yeah, I like alarm-clock better too. Consider marking this thread as solved. To do so edit your first post and add SOLVED in the tittle.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,502

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Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

@hchiper
Back to the OP. If you want to run "kalarm", you need to install "akonadi-server, kdepim" packages. There are missing dependencies in the "kalarm" package, so this could be considered as a Debian upstream bug. You could possibly report that for Debian developers.

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: SOLVED - KAlarm problem

Thanks Q4OS Team.
It seems the problem has already been reported 1 or 2 years ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=967929
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=836873
If a correction has been made, it is in recent version not yet available in Q4OS.

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