[Sussex] Locked address book in Kontact

[Peter Humphreys]

Thanks to both Jan and Paul (your code below was what I used..) for providing 
the solution on this. There was just the one file locking Kontact up, in the 
event - and now all is up and running.

Season's greetings to all.

Peter

On Friday 21 December 2012 09:32:58 Paul Willis wrote:
> Just to expand on Jan's answer above, from the command line:
>
> rm -i /home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/*.lock
>
> is the interactive delete which will print each filename for deletion
> so that you can y or n it.
>
> If you want to use the graphical route you will probably have to show
> hidden files (the .kde bit will be hidden by its leading .) - in
> nautilus (ubuntu) you type control-h to toggle view to include or hide
> the dotted names - konqueror may have its own method - try a view menu
> or other help.
>
> Paul
>
> On 20 December 2012 22:38, Jan Henkins <jan at henkins.za.net> wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > When your computer seized up, all processes crashed. Sometimes this
> > leaves behind lock files of some description, which you need to delete
> > manually. You can go into the folder mentioned in the last sentence of
> > the error message and delete all files with names ending in ".lock". You
> > can do this in several ways, my favourite being the command line, or you
> > can use the Konquerer or Dolphin file managers to do the same.
> >
> > Peter Humphreys <peter at humphreys999.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone, and season's greetings
> >>
> >> I managed to do a silly thing the other day, I tried to download 4Gb of
> >> data for OpenSUSE 12.2 when I only had 2.5Gb disk space for it to go
> >> in.. oops.
> >>
> >> Unsurprisingly the machine seized up, and whilst I have managed to get
> >> it going again by a 'crash course' (haha) in the command line and
> >> emptying the /tmp folder (at runlevel 1) and clearing out larger items
> >> from the Trash folder, the address book in 'Kontact' is seized up with
> >> the message below popping up every time I try to open an address card.
> >>
> >> The address book '/home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf' is locked by
> >>
> >> application ''.
> >>
> >> If you believe this is incorrect, just remove the lock file
> >>
> >> from '/home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/*.lock'
> >>
> >> I cannot see how to 'just remove the lock file' - I had a look to see
> >> what processes are running by using 'top' but that led me nowhere.
> >>
> >> Has anyone any suggestions on how I can remove this lock, please?
> >>
> >> The machine (this one) - is a Dell Inspiron 4600 tower - and is running
> >> OpenSUSE 11.0
> >>
> >> Any suggestions gratefully received!
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Peter Humphreys
> >>
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> > Jan Henkins
> >
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