Since the akonadi-20.08.0 update akonadi fails to start with `akonadictl start` with the following errors: > org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server... > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-vendion' > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-vendion' > org.kde.pim.akonadictl: done. > Connecting to deprecated signal > QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-vendion' > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Did not find MySQL server default configuration (mysql-global.conf) > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... > org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/local/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally.. During this time the /tmp/runtime-vendion/akonadi/ directory gets created, but is empty, there isn't even a socket file created my the MySQL server in ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc suggests. The mysql-global.conf file does exist on my system in /usr/local/etc/xdg/akonadi/mysql-global.conf and there is a mysql.conf file in ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf. There is an Akonadi.error file in ~/.local/share/akonadi with the following (echoing the output from `akonadictl start`): > 2020-08-26T08:13:53 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... > 2020-08-26T08:13:53 [WARN ] default: QStandardPaths2020-08-26T08:13:53 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/local/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally... > er: Did not find MySQL server default configuration (mysql-global.conf) > 2020-08-26T08:13:53 [CRITICAL] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file > 2020-08-26T08:13:53 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...
Note: I have tried following these directions to have Akodoni do a clean start and I still get the same error. https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/pim/kmail2/clean-start-after-a-failed-migration.html
Moin moin Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Have you tried manually creating a ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc with the correct connection information (maybe you can connect via hostname isntead of socket)? mfg Tobias
(In reply to Tobias C. Berner from comment #2) I don't know if that will work out of the box as the default /usr/local/etc/xdg/akonadi/mysql-global.conf has the "skip_networking" option enabled. I did try updating my ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc with the following > [Debug] > Tracer=null > > [%General] > Driver=QMYSQL > > [QMYSQL] > Host=Heimdall > Name=akonadi > Options="" > ServerPath=/usr/local/libexec/mysqld > StartServer=true > [Debug] > Tracer=null > > [%General] > Driver=QMYSQL > > [QMYSQL] > Host=localhost > Name=akonadi > Options="" > ServerPath=/usr/local/libexec/mysqld > StartServer=true When I ran akonadictl start --verbose with those I got the same error, and it updated my config file adding back in the "Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/tmp/runtime-vendion/akonadi/mysql.socket" options. > org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server... > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-vendion' > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-vendion' > org.kde.pim.akonadictl: done. > Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) > [/u/h/vendion]─> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db" > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/local/bin/mysqlcheck" > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Using mysqld: "/usr/local/libexec/mysqld" > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Did not find MySQL server default configuration (mysql-global.conf) > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating connection threads > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating service threads > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stopping db process > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file > org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... > org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/local/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally... To experiment I copied over /usr/local/etc/xdg/akonadi/mysql-global.conf to ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf as the file suggests and commented out the "skip_networking" option and tried with the same result.
In further testing I was able to create a system wide DB for Akonadi to use using mysql57 (already installed as a dependency for akonadi and a few other KDE packages) and everything seems to be working fine for now although this setup is less than ideal compaired to the default of letting akonadi start the DB server as needed on a per user bases.