Cannot start Akonadi

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2010-01-03, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > The error of Test 4 says that MySQL cannot start because something else
> > (potentially another instance of itself) is already working with the data
> > files.
> >
> > Check if you have any mysql processes (I think on Kubuntu they are called
> > mysqld-akonadi) running under your user account.
> >
> > Stop them and then try restarting Akonadi, e.g. akonadictl restart
> 
> Thanks, Kevin, what is safe to pkill?
> 
> karmic1 at kubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep -i mysqld-akonadi
> karmic1   2004  0.0  1.0 182068 20984 ?        Sl   07:32   0:08
> /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
> --defaults-file=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf
> --datadir=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
> --socket=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket
> karmic1   8531  0.0  0.8 146688 16668 ?        Sl   17:22   0:00
> /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
> --defaults-file=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf
> --datadir=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
> --socket=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket
> karmic1   8563  0.1  0.8 146688 16668 ?        Sl   17:23   0:00
> /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
> --defaults-file=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf
> --datadir=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
> --socket=/home/karmic1/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket
> karmic1   8593  0.0  0.0   3044   860 pts/1    R+   17:23   0:00 grep
> -i mysqld-akonadi
> karmic1 at kubuntu:~$

I'd say all of them.
Try an Akonadi shutdown first, e.g. akonadictl stop
If Akonadi's control process has still control over one of them, it will kill 
them.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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