akonadi won't start

[Carl Schwan]

Le jeudi 14 juillet 2022 à 9:31 AM, Robert Voinea <rvoinea at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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

yes and this was fixed in
https://invent.kde.org/pim/akonadi/-/commit/aebb20a082d05b36458008fedff4397f022c3ffa

>
>
> 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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