Kmail/kontact won't start

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 1:38 AM Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Dienstag, 16. August 2022 04:27:22 CEST Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > Ever since I upgraded to kubuntu 22.04 (from the previous LTS), when I
> > try to start kontact or kmail, it says that "The Akonadi
> > personal information system is not running."
> >
> > When I try to run akonadi_control I get
> > ~> akonadi_control help
> > Connecting to deprecated signal
> > QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...
> > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld not found. Please verify your installation
> > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...
> > org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver'
> > exited normally...
> >
> > So apparently my upgrade got rid of MySQL.  And I don't see it in the
> > list of installable packages.
>
> That's weird. MySQL is available in Ubuntu 22.04 (and thus should also be
> available in Kubuntu):
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mysql&searchon=names&suite=jammy&section=all
>
> Or you install the MySQL-replacement MariaDB:
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jammy&section=all&keywords=mariadb&searchon=names

Thanks Ingo,

I found mariadb-server with muon package manager.  I don't understand
how it got uninstalled during the upgrade, but reinstalling it seems
to have fixed things.

Michael