Akonadi server error

[galvez_65]

Hi all, since the most recent round of KDE updates akonadi is failing to start. journalctl shows the following

org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2022-06-10  7:42:19 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld (server 10.8.3-MariaDB) starting as process 2776 ...\n"
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/ak>
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/bin/mysqld"
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
Jun 10 07:42:24 CarbonPuker akonadiserver[2770]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly

Any suggestion on how to trouble shoot this?
Thanks

[pycrk]

@galvez_65

akonadi

hi @galvez_65

look at this thread, maybe it’s helpful.

[Schlaefer]

You’re maybe hitting this issue (also affects existing installations):

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454948

Ongoing discussion, comment #9 fixed it for me, but it’s only applicable if you’re able to redownload everything from the cloud, since it deletes the local storage.

[galvez_65]

Thanks for

touch $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_logfile0

worked for me.

On a positive note, this made me backup my laptop in preparation for for option 9 if comment 5 hadn’t worked.