After Update (Manjaro) Kontact doesn't start

Tue Sep 2 11:23:40 BST 2025

Am Di., 2. Sept. 2025 um 08:58 Uhr schrieb Markus Feilner
<mfeilner at feilner-it.net>:
>
> Hi from Regensburg,
>
> > Does someone have a hint for me?
>
> Can you try setting up a new (empty) user home directory, log in with that and
> try to start kontact there. If that works, then the problem is in your account
> or akonadi data of that other user where it fails.

Hi from Braunschweig,

Yeah, i will try it.
But after some doing here: deinstall mariadb, delete mysql folder in
/var/lib/ and install mariadb again, there wasn't any changes.
maybe i can reinitialize akonadi. but i don'T find anything for this.

>
> Might be a good helper for a start... then you could delete your local akonadi
> store, your local .cache directory and/or install akonadiconsole to get some
> more debugging input...

I know akonadisonsole.

>
> did you do a akonadictl fsck?
>
 jepp, and there wasn't anything to restore.

Regards Sebastian

>
> Am Montag, 1. September 2025, 15:15:23 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb
> Sebastian Gödecke:
> > Hi, after an update kontact doesn't start.
> > After starting akonadiconsole and in there Server restart i get this here:
> >
> > MySQL server log contains errors.
> > Details: The MySQL server error log file '<a
> > href="/home/sgo/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err">/home/sgo/.local/sha
> > re/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err</a>' contains errors.
> >
> > File content of '/home/sgo/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err':
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] Starting MariaDB 12.0.2-MariaDB source
> > revision aab83aecdca15738d114cf5a2f223f1d12e4e6bd server_uid
> > vE4fXkAicQ2RybjyQY4pAHxfAps= as process 3824
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Warning] --innodb-file-per-table is deprecated
> > and will be removed in a future release
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Warning] option 'innodb-log-buffer-size':
> > unsigned value 1048576 adjusted to 2097152
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.3.1
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of transaction pools: 1
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using io_uring
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: innodb_buffer_pool_size_max=128m,
> > innodb_buffer_pool_size=128m
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initialized memory pressure event
> > listener 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of
> > buffer pool 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffered log writes (block
> > size=512 bytes) 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Resetting space id's
> > in the
> > doublewrite buffer
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: End of log at LSN=2392100490
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Opened 3 undo tablespaces
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segments in 3 undo
> > tablespaces are active.
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to
> > 12.000MiB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12.000MiB.
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: log sequence number 2392100490;
> > transaction id 859681
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from
> > /home/sgo/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_buffer_pool
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] Plugin 'wsrep-provider' is disabled.
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:32 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at
> > 250901 14:01:32
> > 2025-09-01 14:01:33 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld: ready for connections.
> > Version: '12.0.2-MariaDB'  socket:
> > '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket'  port: 0  Arch Linux
> > 2025-09-01 14:05:43 10 [Warning] Aborted connection 10 to db:
> > 'akonadi' user: 'sgo' host: '' (Got an error reading communication
> > packets)
> >
> > Further:
> > Test 10:  ERROR
> > --------
> >
> > Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus.
> > Details: The Akonadi control process is not registered at D-Bus which
> > typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during
> > startup.
> >
> > and the last error message:
> > Test 13:  ERROR
> > --------
> >
> > No resource agents found.
> > Details: No resource agents have been found, Akonadi is not usable
> > without at least one. This usually means that no resource agents are
> > installed or that there is a setup problem. The following paths have
> > been searched: '/usr/share/akonadi/agents'. The XDG_DATA_DIRS
> > environment variable is set to
> > '/home/sgo/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share
> > :/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'; make sure this
> > includes all paths where Akonadi agents are installed.
> >
> > Directory listing of '/usr/share/akonadi/agents':
> > akonadiindexingagent.desktop
> > archivemailagent.desktop
> > birthdaysresource.desktop
> > contactsresource.desktop
> > davgroupwareresource.desktop
> > etesyncresource.desktop
> > ewsmtaresource.desktop
> > ewsresource.desktop
> > followupreminder.desktop
> > googleresource.desktop
> > icaldirresource.desktop
> > icalresource.desktop
> > imapresource.desktop
> > knutresource.desktop
> > kolabresource.desktop
> > maildirresource.desktop
> > maildispatcheragent.desktop
> > mailfilteragent.desktop
> > mailmergeagent.desktop
> > mboxresource.desktop
> > migrationagent.desktop
> > mixedmaildirresource.desktop
> > newmailnotifieragent.desktop
> > notesagent.desktop
> > openxchangeresource.desktop
> > pop3resource.desktop
> > sendlateragent.desktop
> > unifiedmailboxagent.desktop
> > vcarddirresource.desktop
> > vcardresource.desktop
> >
> > Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to
> > '/home/sgo/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share
> > :/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'
> >
> >
> > So i don't know the details of how they work together, and maybe there
> > is only the mysql error and the others are gone, if this could be
> > solved.
> >
> > Does someone have a hint for me?
>
>
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