4.3.85 Akonadi/mysql startup problems

Andreas Petzold andreas.petzold at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Sat Jan 2 12:11:42 UTC 2010


On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:41:53 Andreas Petzold wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> yesterday, I've installed the 4.3.85 packages on my F12-i686 machine.
>  Thanks a lot to Rex and the other people from the KDE-SIG for providing
>  the packages!
> 
> >From previous postings I was expecting quite a lot of trouble with
> > akonadi,
> 
> and sure enough akonadi doesn't start during kde startup.
> However, once kde is up and running I can start akonadi w/o problems from
> System Settings->Akonadi, WTF? When I run the test, two problems are
> highlighted.
> 
> 1) MySQL server log contains errors.
> 
> 100102  9:36:11 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
> 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist
> 
> I've found the following userbase entry:
> 
> http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Table_.27mysql._servers.27_doesn.27t_exist
> 
> I haven't tried the recommended fix yet, because I'm a bit confused. I'm
> supposed to modify a default akonadi config file to make akonadi work in
>  the first place? Seriously? Should I bugzilla this for Fedora if the fix
>  works?
> 
> 2) Previous Akonadi server log error found
> 
> Control process died, committing suicide!
> 
> I expect to find something like this because akonadi didn't start correctly
>  at kde startup. But why does it start w/o any problem when I start it
>  manually? Kontact doesn't work correctly as long as akonadi isn't running.
>  For instance, while it shows the mail subject in the message list pane, it
>  doesn't display the mail contents.
> 

I've attached the error log of akonadi with all the errors it shows right 
after kde startup. I repeat, akonadi starts fine, if started manually, so 
these errors can't be real or they may be the result of a race condition 
during startup.

	Cheers,

		Andreas
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