[kdepim-users] recurrent mysqld socket connection problem

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Tuesday 31 of December 2013 02:35:53 E. Hakan Duran wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi,

> During the last couple of days, I have been having recurrent problems in
> launching Kontact. It doesn't open normally reporting error to connect to
> the Dbus session of Mysql, either settings being very wrong or complaining
> corruption of InnoDB files. After doing some Google search, I moved these
> files (ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1, ibdata1)) from
> $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data to another folder and copied them back
> with the following command:
> cp -a ib* $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data
> Most of the time it worked. A few times it didn't, and after loging out and
> in a few times, it finally worked again. However, there is no telling what
> it will do the next time I login to KDE.

If the problem with Akonadi not working appears right after you log in to your 
session and you use the proprietary nvidia drivers, your problem could be this 
[0].

if it's really a corruption in the log files, removing ib_logfile* is usually 
fine (not the ibdata one though). They will be recreated on next MySQL start. 
In the worst case you will lose uncommitted transactions, but the missing data 
will be fetched from server again, or you will lose some changes (flags 
changes, item moves, etc) - no data loss though.

Dan

[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326480

> I made backups of akonadi database, kdepim settings and kwallet stuff,
> assuming that this was due to database corruption. However, I don't know if
> it is worth to erase the whole thing and restore it from the backup. I
> don't want to spend hours and at the end still lose data. Any bright
> suggestions are welcome.
> 
> I guess this is another down side of dealing with akonadi/mysql database
> structure. I have to admit I am yet to see an advantage of this decision
> after 3 years maybe? Sorry for ranting.
> 
> I am currently on Fedora 20, KDE 4.11.4.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hakan

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Daniel Vrátil
KDE Desktop Team
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

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