<div dir="auto">Hi Michael<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm guessing a bit here, but if you take a look at /etc/passwd and see if your user has an ID 1000.</div><div dir="auto">Then ls -alh on the files in the mounted 1TB disc, check that it recognises them as belonging to you.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My guess is that it's a mismatched userID</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hth</div><div dir="auto">Rick</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 27 Sep 2020, 13:00 , <<a href="mailto:kubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send kubuntu-users mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 15:57:57 -0600<br>
From: Michael Hirsch <<a href="mailto:mdhirsch@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mdhirsch@gmail.com</a>><br>
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My old computer (running Kubunto 20.4) died. I don't know what is<br>
wrong, but it doesn't even try to boot. It was a little old, so I'm<br>
ready to get a new one.<br>
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Bought a Dell Inspiron 3880 at Best Buy. Downloaded kubuntu 20.4 onto<br>
a flash drive and installed it. Windows is now gone. So Kubuntu<br>
boots great off the SSD.<br>
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Then I pulled my 1 TB drive from the dead computer, put it in the new<br>
one and mounted the HOME partition on /home. Reboot and--voila!--all<br>
my files restored as they should be. Except...<br>
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First I noticed that kwallet can't read my old kwallet files. It<br>
seems to think I maybe have the wrong password. Then I found that<br>
kmail doesn't work--apparently because akonadi doesn't start.<br>
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Here's what I see when I start kmail:<br>
> kmail<br>
Connecting to deprecated signal<br>
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during<br>
initial connection!<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments:<br>
("--defaults-file=/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf",<br>
"--datadir=/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",<br>
"--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket",<br>
"--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid")<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2020-09-26 15:47:47 0 [Note]<br>
/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi (mysqld 10.3.22-MariaDB-1ubuntu1) starting as<br>
process 2179 ...\n"<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 7<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...<br>
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver'<br>
exited normally...<br>
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Looking for advice to get things working again.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Michael<br>
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