Re: HELP!!! KMail held hostage by Akonadiserver

Hi,

just a quick note for this list: John reported on the kde-pim mailing 
list that he fixed the problem by renaming ~local/share/akonadi to 
akonadi.old.


Regards,
Ingo


On Thursday 25 February 2010, John Aldrich wrote:
> Ever since I installed some updates yesterday, Akonadiserver fails to
> start properly and  hangs KMail. when Akonadiserver eventually
> crashes, it takes KMail with it. This is *extremely* frustrating and
> making me want to switch to Thunderbird or something less broken.
> OTOH, I have years of old messages stuck in KMail and I'd hate to
> lose all those messages!
> 
> Can someone please help me with this? I've been using Linux and
> Fedora/RedHat for years and can't recall having this much trouble
> with a "critical" (to me) app!
> 
> I tried starting Akonadiserver manually from Konsole, but "akonadictl
> start" just gets me this:
> [akonadiserver] "[
> [akonadiserver] 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x39) [0x40ac09]
> [akonadiserver] 1: akonadiserver [0x40b152]
> [akonadiserver] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x31c04332f0]
> [akonadiserver] 3: /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x31c0433275]
> [akonadiserver] 4: /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x175) [0x31c0434a55]
> [akonadiserver] 5:
> /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x74)
> [0x3fb4a6b7e4]
> [akonadiserver] 6:
> akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xa8) [0x40c278]
> [akonadiserver] 7:
> /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x78)
> [0x3fb4af9c68] [akonadiserver] 8: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4
> [0x3fb4b0b729]
> [akonadiserver] 9:
> /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x39) [0x3fb4b0c919]
> [akonadiserver] 10: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x4e) [0x4068fe]
> [akonadiserver] 11:
> /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer25startMy
> sqlDatabaseProcessEv+0x182b) [0x3fb5c5946b]
> [akonadiserver] 12:
> /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDa
> tabaseProcessEv+0x2e0) [0x3fb5c5dfd0]
> [akonadiserver] 13:
> /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObj
> ect+0x76) [0x3fb5c5e276]
> [akonadiserver] 14:
> /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instance
> Ev+0x4a) [0x3fb5c5f57a]
> [akonadiserver] 15: akonadiserver(main+0x3b8) [0x405f28]
> [akonadiserver] 16: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)
> [0x31c041ea4d] [akonadiserver] 17: akonadiserver [0x405a79]
> [akonadiserver] ]
> [akonadiserver] "
> ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code
> 255 (Unknown error)
> [akonadiserver] search paths:  ("/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin",
> "/usr/kerberos/sbin", "/usr/kerberos/bin", "/usr/lib64/ccache",
> "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/sbin",
> "/sbin", "/home/john/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin",
> "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec",
> "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin")
> [akonadiserver] Database process exited unexpectedly during initial
> connection!
> [akonadiserver] executable: "/usr/libexec/mysqld"
> [akonadiserver] arguments:
> ("--defaults-file=/home/john/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf",
> "--datadir=/home/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",
> "--socket=/home/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket")
> [akonadiserver] stdout: ""
> [akonadiserver] stderr: ""
> [akonadiserver] exit code: 1
> [akonadiserver] process error: "Unknown error"
> [akonadiserver] "[
> 
> I'm no programmer, so I haven't a clue what is going on. All I know
> is I installed a butt-load of updates yesterday and then KMail
> wouldn't let me POP one of my email addresses, so I tried restarting
> it and then started having problems with Akonadi. :-(
> Maybe I shouldn't have had KMail open when I was doing the updates,
> but it seems to me that's a system problem if it let the updates go
> forward if it needed everything shut down. I even rebooted the system
> last night thinking that might be the problem, but it still won't
> start Akonadiserver.
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