4.3.85 Akonadi/mysql startup problems

Martin Kho lists.kho at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 17:25:17 UTC 2010


On Saturday 02 January 2010 13:11:42 Andreas Petzold wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure you haven't some old packages hanging around. From KDE 4.4. beta 
1 and up System Settings -> Akonadi no longer exists. See also [1]

Martin Kho

[1] 
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=84478&sid=e91bd79ba1438307f1b1cd572058efab


> >
> > 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_exis
> >t
> >
> > 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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