After upgrade to KDE 4.4, I cannot open Kaddressbook

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Monday 15 February 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Although the upgrade to KDE 4.4 from 4.3.5 went smoothly on my
> test machine, my production machine will not start Akonadi when I
> open Kaddressbook. Kubuntu 9.10 with the Backports repo
> enabled. This is the Akonadi log when I try to open Kaddressbook:
> 
> Akonadi Server Self-Test Report
> ===============================

<snip>

> Test 4:  ERROR
> --------
> 
> MySQL server log contains errors.
> Details: The MySQL server error log file '<a
> href='/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'>/ho
> me/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err</a>'
> contains errors.
> 
> File content of
> '/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err': 100215
> 15:29:16 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
> InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
> InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
> InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
> 100215 15:29:16  InnoDB: Retrying to lock the first data file

<snip>

This may seem somewhat stupid, but after reading this, I would expect 
either some instance of the akonadi mysql server to be running or the 
database to be corrupt...
Could you try 'ps aux|grep -i akonadi' to see if it is running at 
all?
Also, you may want to try to backup 
/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi and remove it after making sure 
that akonadi isn't running.

Also, just a small hint regarding the sub-thread above: you shouldn't 
be running mysqld-akonadi without parameters. You should run it as 
follows:

/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi \
  --defaults-file=/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf \
  --datadir=/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ \
  --socket=/home/dotancohen/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket


  --Reinhold