akonadi startup errors

[Dave Stevens]

On Friday 26 February 2010 05:57:16 pm Mail Lists wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 07:44 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > Hi All;
> > 
> > I've gotten no replies from kde-linux, so I'll ask here:
> > 
> > 
> > I upgraded to KDE 4.4 yesterday. I get this error EVERY time I start
> > Kmail:
> > 
> > [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers'
> > doesn't exist
> > 
> > I've tried removing the .local/share/alonadi directory and rebooting with
> > no luck.
> > 
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction per how to fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> 
>   One of the computers i 1/2 maintain had this problem - i switched the
> mail client to thunderbird - or evo I suppose.
> 
>   If you are well prepared you never use local storage specific to any
> mail client and instead run a local imap server as local store ...
> 
>   Good luck ...

I got a similar (or perhaps the same) issue and at this address:

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Nepomuk_Indexing_Agents_have_been_Disabled

is a little box of three command line texts that worked for me. Not 
necessarily a permanent fix but I can now use my pop client (kmail) again.

Dave