Karmic: Akonadi won't start because of dbus

[Martin Bretschneider]

Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mark Greenwood:
> On Sunday 25 Oct 2009 09:22:56 Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I updates from jaunty to karmic and now I get errors from failed
> > akonadi. I uploaded the debug infos to
> > http://www.bretschneidernet.de/tmp/akonadi-error.txt .
> >
> > I guess the main problem is
> >
> > #########################################################
> > Test 10:  ERROR
> > --------
> > Akonadi server process not registered at D-Bus.
> > Details: The Akonadi server process is not registered at D-Bus
> > which typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal
> > error during startup.
> > ###########################################################
> >
> > This seems to be a common problem since there is entry on
> > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi . My home partition is not
> > encrypted so I tried the the following:
> >
> > ###################################################################
> >#### The fix is to edit the following file
> > "/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld- akonadi". Below the line:
> >
> >       @{HOME}/.local/share/akonadi/** rwk,
> >
> > Add a new line:
> >
> >       @{HOME}/.Private/** rwk,
> >
> > Restart apparmor and restart akonadi.
> > ###################################################################
> >####
> >
> > But that did not solved the problem. I also tried a new test user.
> > I guess this is a main problem if any KDE user get this error after
> > starting KDE...
> >
> > Do you any hints?
> 
> I had this. It's a very frustrating problem. I probably went through
>  all the links you did. FWIW I had the same issues in Jaunty and I
>  used the same technique to fix both systems. It's not anything to do
>  with D-Bus per se, the error just means that Akonadi failed to
>  start. It doesn't, unfortunately, give any indication as to why this
>  is.
> 
> To me it looks like a problem with the resource migration tool.

Yes, it is the "kres-migration" tool.

> I suggest your first step would be to use the Akonadi Control Panel
>  to restart the Akonadi server.

The restart button is greyed out. I can only start it. But there are 
mysql processed running... Strange...

>  This seems to work - once the dekstop
>  is up and running you don't seem to get the same errors. Then delete
>  all the current Akonadi resources and try restarting the Akonadi
>  server. 

I do not have any Akonadi ressource. The kde ressource like address book 
and calender are plain files.

If I try to create an Akonadi ressource I get the same Akonadi starting 
error...

>  If it then starts, you can try manually re-adding the
>  resources - the Control Panel will let you create new resources and
>  import 'old-style' plain file resources. I created a new Calendar
>  and a new addressbook resource and then rebooted. I think that more
>  or less did it for me.
> 
> I tried all the other ideas the Google could find, but this
>  eventually got it working for me.

Hm, I wonder why this is so complicated and causes so much trouble.

Martin
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