akonadi won't start

[Robert Voinea]

Hello

I have encountered the same situation some time ago.
I'm on Archlinux and it happened after an update of mariadb.

If you try to start mysqld by hand, you'll see that it is trying to open a 
file that is not there.
Creating that file allowed mysqld to start.
I can't remember the name of that file though... and it had nothing to do with 
mysqld.conf


On Thursday, 14 July 2022 01:53:08 EEST Mike Diehl wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm having trouble getting akonadi to start.  When I try to start it, I get
> this error message:
> 
> $ akonadictl start
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> mdiehl at mikeworkstation:~$ org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the
> Akonadi Server... mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Failed to open required defaults
> file: /home/mdiehl/ mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Fatal error in defaults
> handling. Program aborted! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server
> stopped unexpectedly
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during
> initial connection! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable:
> "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
> 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 l.pid")
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Failed to open
> required defaults file: /home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf
> mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted!"
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and
> that the socket: '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' exists!
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...
> org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited
> normally...
> 
> 
> I can confirm that /home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf does exist
> and has readable permissions.
> 
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> Mike


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