Package: akonadi-server Version: 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I'm not sure if this bug is related to #799308 but here are the symptoms on my PC. Running as root the following command leads to an error: samsung-debian:/home/fabien# akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. samsung-debian:/home/fabien# Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: ("/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld" arguments: ("--defaults-file=/root/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/root/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/tmp/akonadi-root.bLFThD/mysql.socket") stdout: "" stderr: "160403 12:05:01 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 5.5.47-0+deb8u1) starting as process 31131 ... 160403 12:05:01 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! 160403 12:05:01 [ERROR] Aborting 160403 12:05:01 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete " exit code: 1 process error: "Unknown error" "[ 0: akonadiserver() [0x805c67b] 1: akonadiserver() [0x805c929] 2: linux-gate.so.1(__kernel_sigreturn+0) [0xb77cc404] 3: linux-gate.so.1(__kernel_vsyscall+0x10) [0xb77cc428] 4: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x47) [0xb6f06367] 5: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(abort+0x143) [0xb6f07a23] 6: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x124) [0xb74f6224] 7: akonadiserver() [0x805e672] 8: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0xab) [0xb759ed0b] 9: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(+0x11696f) [0xb75af96f] 10: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x38) [0xb75b8d88] 11: akonadiserver() [0x80c9720] 12: akonadiserver() [0x805f277] 13: akonadiserver() [0x8061a49] 14: akonadiserver() [0x812a441] 15: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN14QMetaCallEvent13placeMetaCallEP7QObject+0x2a) [0xb762db6a] 16: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent+0x1b9) [0xb7636119] 17: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x5c) [0xb761b61c] 18: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x4e) [0xb761b67e] 19: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x8a) [0xb761b42a] 20: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData+0x211) [0xb761efb1] 21: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjecti+0x25) [0xb761f525] 22: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(+0x1b46e3) [0xb764d6e3] 23: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x244) [0xb6db7da4] 24: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x470c9) [0xb6db80c9] 25: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x36) [0xb6db8196] 26: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x69) [0xb764d839] 27: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop13processEventsE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x4f) [0xb7619d9f] 28: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE+0x1ae) [0xb761a12e] 29: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv+0x96) [0xb76202b6] 30: akonadiserver() [0x8056af8] 31: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0xb6ef1a63] 32: akonadiserver() [0x80575a8] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.78 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages akonadi-server depends on: ii akonadi-backend-mysql 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 ii akonadi-backend-sqlite 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 ii libakonadiprotocolinternals1 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 ii libboost-program-options1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u3 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libqt4-sql 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 akonadi-server recommends no packages. Versions of packages akonadi-server suggests: ii akonadi-backend-mysql 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 pn akonadi-backend-postgresql <none> ii akonadi-backend-sqlite 1.13.0-2+deb8u1 -- no debconf information