Akonadi won't start

[Michael Hirsch]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Kai Stian Olstad
<kubuntu+list at olstad.com> wrote:
> On 16. sep. 2016 06:28, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>
>> I put the latest and greatest Kubuntu on my laptop and kontact
>> complains that akonadi won't start.  When I start it by hand I get
>> these messages.  Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?
>
>
> Did you do a upgrade? If so, from which version?

No, this is a fresh install of 16.04.  Of course, I grab the updates
when they come out.
>
>>
>> mhirsch at zareason-laptop:~$ akonadictl start
>> Starting Akonadi Server...
>>   done.
>> Connecting to deprecated signal
>> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QS
>> tring,QString)
>> mhirsch at zareason-laptop:~$ search paths:  ("/home/mhirsch/bin",
>> "/opt/java/current/bin",
>> "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin",
>> "/bin", "/usr/ga
>> mes", "/usr/local/games", "/snap/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin",
>> "/usr/local/libex
>> ec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec",
>> "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin
>> ")
>> Found mysql_install_db:  "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db"
>> Found mysqlcheck:  "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck"
>> Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
>> executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
>> arguments:
>> ("--defaults-file=/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf",
>> "--datadir=
>> /home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",
>> "--socket=/tmp/akonadi-mhirsch.RNizEs/mysq
>> l.socket")
>> stdout: ""
>> stderr: ""
>> exit code: 1
>> process error: "Unknown error"
>> terminating service threads
>> terminating connection threads
>> stopping db process
>> Failed to remove Unix socket
>> Failed to remove runtime connection config file
>> Application 'akonadiserver' exited normally...
>
>
> You might find more information about why in fails in the file
> /home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/akonadiserver.error

Thanks for the sugestion.  I tried thaitt, but it doesn't help me:
Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf",
"--datadir=
/home/mhirsch/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/",
"--socket=/tmp/akonadi-mhirsch.RNizEs/mysq
l.socket")
stdout: ""
stderr: ""
exit code: 1
process error: "Unknown error"
Failed to remove Unix socket
Failed to remove runtime connection config file

No joy :-(

Michael