Kalarm 20.08 starts Akonadi? (it was: Re: [KDE-pim] New Install: AKONADI wit PostgreSQL)

[David Jarvie]

On Monday 04 Jan 2021 22:43:56 Toni Asensi wrote:
> > > I've tried installing KAlarm under Kubuntu 20.10, but the first time
> > > it runs
> > > it starts Akonadi, MariaDB/MySQL, etc. Do you want me to write a bug
> > > report?
> > 
> > No. The first time it runs, it has to use Akonadi to locate any existing
> > Akonadi alarm resources used by previous versions of KAlarm, in order to
> > migrate them. When migration is complete, it will then halt Akonadi if it
> > wasn't already running previously.
> > 
> > --
> > David Jarvie
> > KAlarm author, KDE developer
> 
> Thank you, David, for the description (and for KAlarm :-)
> I've tried it again in a Kubuntu 20.10 virtual machine and (even after
> waiting a lot of time) KAlarm doesn't stop Akonadi if it's KAlarm who has
> executed Akonadi (when KAlarm has been launched for the first time):
>     $ kalarm
>     [...]
> 
>     $ akonadictl status
>     Akonadi Control: running
>     Akonadi Server: running
>     [...]
> 
>     $ kalarm --version
>     kalarm 3.0.1 (KDE Apps 20.08.1)
> 
> Perhaps that doesn't happen in more recent versions of KAlarm?

I checked, and in fact you need KDE applications 20.12 in order for KAlarm to 
restore the previous Akonadi run state if KAlarm needed to start it in order 
to do the migration.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer, KAlarm author.