On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 07:50 -0700, stan via users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:13:43 -0700Jonathan Ryshpan < jonrysh@pacbell.net> wrote:
What is akonadi? What is baloo? Why does akonadi usually crash onsystem startup? Why does akonadi or maybe baloo sometimes use 100% ofcpu? Why does akonadi or baloo cause a great deal of disk activity?
There's this thing called web search now. I was curious, so I did thesearch. Here are the results.
Thanks much for the pointer. I have been searching the web, probably not diligently enough.Akonadi/Baloo is a powerful, complex, and poorly documented system.
Akonadi is a storage service for personal information management dataand metadata named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. It isone of the "pillars" behind the KDE SC 4 project, although it isdesigned to be used in any desktop environment. It is extensible andprovides concurrent read, write, and query... https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
Baloo is the file indexing and file search framework for KDE Plasma,with a focus on providing a very small memory footprint along with withextremely fast searching. https://community.kde.org/Baloo If akonadi is crashing, it is probably misconfigured. Do you have aconfiguration file in home that is old, that has come through manyupgrades? Try moving it to a backup name, and letting akonadi write anew configuration file on your next reboot.
A very useful pointer.
baloo is indexing, and storing, things so that lookups canbe very fast when you are looking for something.
Is there any way to run KDE alarm without akonadi?
Try to remove KDE alarm and see if it wants to remove akonadi. i.e. ithas a dependency on it. It might be integrated. You could also trydisabling akonadi and see if kde alarm still works. I suspect theanswer is no, but I am just guessing.
I have taken the advice in https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/pim/kmail2/clean-start-after-a-failed-migrati... how to get akonadi to restore itself. My system now starts without the errors described. And after a modest amount of dinking around, several akonadictl stops and starts, and some modifications to kalarm, I can now set alarms.