akonadi has problems to start

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday 22 March 2010 20:59:55 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Hallo all
> 
> with the 4.4.0 kde release I got my akonadi up and running. The 4.4.1
> update brought me some minor problems with my fully updated F12
> system.
> 
> After a fresh login I lost my address book. So I stopped akonadi,
> exited kontact, removed .local/share/akonadi folder and restarted
> akonadi. It created all the needed files, started up and I got my
> address book back.
> 
> After the next login I got an akonadi error message which stated that
> the data from my traditional imap-address book could not be read.
> Additionally I got the error in my akonadi log:
> 
> [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers'
> doesn't exist
> 
> I have to run the command:
> mysql_install_db --datadir=$HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
> 
> To get the server running without an error. I don't know what was
> going wrong here, but automatic creation seems to fail on my host. And
> I still have one warning that the protocol version can not be checked
> without a connection to the server. I don't know which server (nepomuk
> or akonadi) but both are running.
> 
> And what I don't get: Why do they need so many (different) database
> servers? Nepomuk (virtuoso), Amarok (MySQL), Akonadi (MySQL) ... I
> think it is time to get a general KDE Database path with a
> configuration dialog and an "make it work again" option.

The general database path should be Virtuoso. According to kde#226115 there 
are some blockers but KDE upstream is closely working with Virtuoso people on 
it. Two database servers are not a good solution indeed.

Jaroslav

> Martin
> 
> PS: MySQL version gives: mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.44, for redhat-
> linux-gnu (i386) using readline 5.1
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