<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Again, thanks to all for your suggestions. I had to set "StartServer=false" because once I start Akonadi get repeated screen dumps along the lines of this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld for Akonadi is already running, trying to connect to it.<br>akonadi.collectionattributetable OK<br>akonadi.collectionmimetyperelation OK<br>akonadi.collectionpimitemrelation OK<br>akonadi.collectiontable OK<br>akonadi.flagtable OK<br>akonadi.mimetypetable OK<br>akonadi.parttable OK<br>akonadi.parttypetable OK<br>akonadi.pimitemflagrelation OK<br>akonadi.pimitemtable OK<br>akonadi.pimitemtagrelation OK<br>akonadi.relationtable OK<br>akonadi.relationtypetable OK<br>akonadi.resourcetable OK<br>akonadi.schemaversiontable OK<br>akonadi.tagattributetable OK</font><br><font size="2">akonadi.tagremoteidresourcerelationtable OK<br>akonadi.tagtable OK<br>akonadi.tagtypetable OK<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Running DB initializer<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: DB initializer done<br>Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504004320) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504001c00) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504012e40) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504014400) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040165c0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50401f760) )</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504028b10) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504029cd0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50403cdd0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50403dde0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50404eff0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504004320) identified as "kalarm-182605794 - 93946911819504"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040611d0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040622d0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040626e0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504033870) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504084c70) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504085db0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504096e50) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040981e0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040a9230) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040aa310) )</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040bb420) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040bc500) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040cd6f0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040ce790) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040737f0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040e8e20) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040e9ee0) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040fb050) )<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040fc0b0) )</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504001c00) identified as "ETMCalendarMonitor - 94850795496272"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504012e40) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94865939403360"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504014400) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94423432516736"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040165c0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94154574179808"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50401f760) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94036241601072"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504028b10) identified as "akonadi_birthdays_resource - 94036241042960"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504029cd0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94614087969824"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50403cdd0) identified as "Archive Mail Kernel ETM - 93938426774784"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50403dde0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93869452509312"</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff50404eff0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93938426659600"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040611d0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94369047268640"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040622d0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94593122694096"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040626e0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94569769731408"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504033870) identified as "KNotes Session - 94369047810944"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504084c70) identified as "ArchiveMailCollectionMonitor - 93938425343808"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504085db0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93893904572608"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff504096e50) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94754945318784"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040981e0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94287279496992"</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040a9230) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94422273181184"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040aa310) identified as "MailFilter Kernel ETM - 94593122718944"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040bb420) identified as "UnifiedMailboxChangeRecorder - 94569769733216"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040bc500) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94337047736752"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040cd6f0) identified as "MailFilterCollectionMonitor - 94593124668816"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040ce790) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93995127948688"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040e8e20) identified as "MailFilterItemMonitor - 94593122684992"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040e9ee0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 94735518430864"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040737f0) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93907576697680"</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040fb050) identified as "akonadi_maildispatcher_agent - 93907576153488"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7ff5040fc0b0) identified as "SpecialCollectionsMonitor - 93907576161696"<br>org.kde.pim.kalarmresource: doRetrieveItem: Event not found: "7dc32763-b990-400f-b58d-exp-94ab23ddda90"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalJob for request 0x7ff48c0ad4c0 finished with error: "Unable to retrieve item from resource: Invalid item retrieved"<br>org.kde.pim.kalarmresource: doRetrieveItem: Event not found: "7dc32763-b990-400f-b58d-exp-94ab23ddda90"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalJob for request 0x7ff48c0b74f0 finished with error: "Unable to retrieve item from resource: Invalid item retrieved"<br>KCrash: Application 'akonadiserver' crashing...<br>KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit<br>sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: DATABASE ERROR:<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Error code: "2013"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: DB error: "Lost connection to MySQL server during query"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Error text: "Lost connection to MySQL server during query QMYSQL3: Unable to execute statement"</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Values: QMap((":0", QVariant(qlonglong, 6352)))<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Query: "SELECT PimItemTable.id, PimItemFlagRelation.Flag_id FROM PimItemTable INNER JOIN PimItemFlagRelation ON ( PimItemTable.id = PimItemFlagRelation.PimItem_id ) WHERE ( ( PimItemTable.id = :0 ) ) ORDER BY PimItemTable.id DESC"<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 6 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 20 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 17 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Handler exception when handling command ModifyItems on connection kalarm-182605794 (0x55fc5c71ff40) : Unable to retrieve item flags<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 19 and type 'Write', disabling...<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"</font><br><font size="2">org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 22 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 27 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 31 and type 'Read', disabling...</font><br><font size="2">QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 56 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 60 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 64 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 69 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 73 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 81 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 87 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 89 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 91 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 93 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 95 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 99 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 25 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 54 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 62 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 71 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 86 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 90 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 94 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 100 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 29 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 67 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 88 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 96 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 58 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 92 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 75 and type 'Read', disabling...<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>org.kde.pim.akonadicore: "QLocalSocket: Remote closed" "/tmp/akonadi-sid.T04dCL/akonadiserver-ntf.socket"<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 91 and type 'Write', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 96 and type 'Write', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 22 and type 'Write', disabling...<br>QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 26 and type 'Read', disabling...</font><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">I do have full permissions on the /tmp file and there's nothing recent in the Fedora Forums which, given their preference for Gnome, is not really surprising. There is one posting about akonadi not starting after <br></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Based on Peter's comment and review of his 6/22/19 posting, I went back and looked at the dnf history file and learned that Fedora installed an F 23 update (10.0.23-1.fc23.x86_64) and inaccurately shows an installed date of May 4, 2016; this was a new, clean installation of F 30 just a couple of weeks ago. Yet when I do a "dnf info mariadb" inquiry, it shows version 10.3.312-10 as being installed, as well as the same server and -common files versions. So now I'm wondering if reinstalling mariadb will help, given all the error message references to mysql. I just did a new cat of akonadiserver.error and got this</div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">cat .local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:04 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:04 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Running DB initializer</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:04 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: DB initializer done</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:05 [WARN ] default: Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:05 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f5704004320) )</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:05 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f5704001c00) )</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:05 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f5704004320) identified as "kalarm-182605794 - 93946911819504"</font><br><font size="2">2019-06-29T09:07:05 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7f5704001c00) identified as "ETMCalendarMonitor - 94850795496272"</font></div></div></div><div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">The fourth line [WARN] makes me wonder about the db connection - am I all wrong about this? Should I reinstall mariadb? Or all of KDE at this point since there appears to be no way to force a reinstall of just kdepim? (The two threads I could find re mysql.conf under akonadi both addressed commenting out the innodb add'l memory size, which has been done.</div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Thanks again!<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:53 PM René J.V. Bertin <<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@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">BTW, did you check the Fedora forums (I'm sure they must exist)? If this issue started after an update and is indeed due to this update, then you are probably not alone. Maybe someone already found a solution, or maybe a correction is being prepared?<br>
<br>
That said, your error can also be the result of a change in the database software, even something stupid as a version change that implies that the server has to be started using a different path.<br>
</blockquote></div></div>