Akonadi won't start

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 16. sep. 2016 06:28, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I put the latest and greatest Kubuntu on my laptop and kontact
> complains that akonadi won't start.  When I start it by hand I get
> these messages.  Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?

Did you do a upgrade? If so, from which version?

>
> mhirsch at zareason-laptop:~$ akonadictl start
> Starting Akonadi Server...
>   done.
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QS
> tring,QString)
> mhirsch at zareason-laptop:~$ search paths:  ("/home/mhirsch/bin",
> "/opt/java/current/bin",
> "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin",
> "/bin", "/usr/ga
> mes", "/usr/local/games", "/snap/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin",
> "/usr/local/libex
> ec", "/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-akonadi"
> arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf",
> "--datadir=
> /home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",
> "--socket=/tmp/akonadi-mhirsch.RNizEs/mysq
> l.socket")
> stdout: ""
> stderr: ""
> exit code: 1
> process error: "Unknown error"
> terminating service threads
> terminating connection threads
> stopping db process
> Failed to remove Unix socket
> Failed to remove runtime connection config file
> Application 'akonadiserver' exited normally...

You might find more information about why in fails in the file
/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error

-- 
Kai Stian Olstad