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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I posted this to the user's group some time ago. It was suggested that I post to the dev group. So, here I go.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I'm having trouble getting akonadi to start. When I try to start it, I get this error message:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ akonadictl start </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) <br />mdiehl@mikeworkstation:~$ org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... <br />mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Failed to open required defaults file: /home/mdiehl/ <br />mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted! <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysq<br />l.pid") <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: "" <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Failed to open required defaults file: /home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace';">mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted!" <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1 <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error" <br />mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed <br />error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' (2)' <br />Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' exists! <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file <br />org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... <br />org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally...<br /><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace';">I can confirm that /home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf does exist and has readable permissions.</span></p>
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