<div dir="auto">It's akonadiCTL not akonadiCLT. Short for akonadi control.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Force reinstalling means just that: forcing the package manager to re-install all the required packages. Just in case some files are corrupt or missing. An alternative is to completely uninstall and reinstall the whole PIM suite.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Sâm, 29 iun. 2019, 00:20 Sid Hymes <<a href="mailto:sidhymes@gmail.com">sidhymes@gmail.com</a>> a scris:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Thanks. What's strange is that it was working w/o issue prior to the update so it sounds like the update "overwrote" or inadvertently deleted part of the total package.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">So I reinstalled kdepim and rebooted - the response is still that Akonadi is not operational. Please see attached. This screen appeared after first telling me Akonadi was not running and to start it. 'akonadiclt start' still reports that "command not found".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">When I did the install, only 3 packages were installed and akonadi was not among them; see attached. Do I need to consider reinstalling the whole kde package group?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Thanks again for your help!<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 1:38 PM Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan <<a href="mailto:ovidiu.b13@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ovidiu.b13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Akonady is not a systemd service. It's a user process. `akonadictl` is a command line tool that helps control that process.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">From your response I deduce that you don't have the full KDE PIM suite installed.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">I recommend that you force reinstall the KDE PIM suite.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Regards,</p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Ovidiu</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">În ziua de vineri, 28 iunie 2019, la 20:32:53 EEST, Sid Hymes a scris:<br></p>
<p style="margin:12px 40px 0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Thank you very much for the prompt response.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">The response to both requests,`akonadictl status` and 'akonadiclt start', (in bash) is 'command not found'. And when I tried 'systemctl status akonadi', the response was 'Unit akonadi.service could not be found'.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">The contents of the akonadiserver.error file is:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">2019-06-28T08:09:14 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to use database "akonadi"<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database error: "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/akonadi-sid.i3Siz4/mysql.socket' (2) QMYSQL: Unable to connect"<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to connect to database!<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database error: "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/akonadi-sid.i3Siz4/mysql.socket' (2) QMYSQL: Unable to connect"<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file<br>2019-06-28T08:09:14 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Mysql (or mariadb) is installed in /usr/bin/mysql.<br></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Thanks for you help.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px;text-indent:0px">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:49 AM Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan <<a href="mailto:ovidiu.b13@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(41,128,185)">ovidiu.b13@gmail.com</span></a>> wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin:0px 40px 0px 46px;text-indent:0px">What does `akonadictl status` say? Can you start it with `akonadiclt start`?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 40px 0px 46px;text-indent:0px">În ziua de vineri, 28 iunie 2019, la 18:14:37 EEST, Sid Hymes a scris:<br></p>
<p style="margin:12px 80px 0px 86px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Hi,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 80px 0px 86px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">After a recent Fedora 30 update, Kontact, etc., no longer function. The error message is "The Akonadi personal information management service is not operational". Clicking the "Details" button brings up nothing. <br></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 80px 0px 86px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Can anyone suggest a troubleshooting path? I reinstalled Akonadi to no effect.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 80px 0px 86px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:"garamond,serif";font-size:large">Thanks.<br></span></p>
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