On Thursday 25 January 2018 22:10:03 Christopher Judd wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> For some time now, I haven't been able to use kontact or kmail,
> because Akonadi is not running. This is on an amd64 testing box.
> When I issue the command "akonadictl start", I get the following
> output:
>
>
>
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during
> initial connection! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable:
> "/usr/sbin/mysqld" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments:
> ("--defaults-file=/home/judd/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf",
> "--datadir=/home/judd/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",
> "--socket=/tmp/akonadi-judd.TvrP8V/mysql.socket",
> "--pid-file=/tmp/akonadi-judd.TvrP8V/mysql.pid")
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: "" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver:
> stderr: "mysqld: [ERROR] Could not open required defaults file:
> /home/judd/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nmysqld: [ERROR] Fatal
> error in defaults handling. Program aborted!\n"
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1 org.kde.pim.akonadiserver:
> process error: "Unknown error" mysqladmin: connect to server at
> 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through
> socket '/tmp/akonadi-judd.TvrP8V/mysql.socket' (2)' Check that mysqld
> is running and that the socket:
> '/tmp/akonadi-judd.TvrP8V/mysql.socket' exists!
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config
> file org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application 'akonadiserver' exited
> normally...
>
>
>
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> The file ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf exists and is readable.
> Any suggestions as to what is going wrong here? Thanks.
>
>
> -Chris
What version of kde? I am using kmail here, without an akonadi instance
visible in htop. But this kmail is 1.9, from the TDE desktop, a fork of
kde at about the 3.5 point, with tons of bugs fixed that kde never had
the time to listen to. It Just Works now.
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