adressbook does not work; problems with akonadi

[Thomas Serries]

Binary package hint: kdepim

I migrated my system from Jaunty to Lucid. Since 10.04 the adressbook does not work any more. I observed the following issues:

- Akonadi server no working when starting kontact the first time in a session. (Screenshots will be attached later.)
- After manually starting akonadi the addressbook seems(!) to work, but all mailing list are empty.
- If you try to add E-Mail-Adresses to mailing lists they will not be saved and if you close kontact there will appear one error message several time (will be attached).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kontact 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 29 14:32:37 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdepim

[Thomas Serries (ts1-serries-online)]

Here is tho log of another error(?) message that is shown some time after kontact has been started the first time within a session.

There seems to be a problem with mysql...

[Marius Groenewald (groenem)]

Can anyone please explain what Akonadi is and why it is suddenly needed by Kontact? My Akonadi is not running and I don't know how to make it run. My Kontact does not start at all after upgrading to Lucid (Ubuntu 10.4)
The following line keeps on scrolling when I start Kontact in Terminal:
kontact(1999)/libakonadi Akonadi::SessionPrivate::socketError: Socket error occurred: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Connection refused"

Below is the report generated when I click on the Detail link in the Akonadi Configuration appication window:
Akonadi Server Self-Test Report
===============================

Test 1: SUCCESS
--------

Database driver found.
Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi server configuration and was found on your system.

File content of '/home/marius/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc':
[%General]
Driver=QMYSQL
SizeThreshold=4096
ExternalPayload=false

[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
User=
Password=
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/marius/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket"
ServerPath=/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
StartServer=true
Host=

[Debug]
Tracer=null

Test 2: SUCCESS
--------

MySQL server found.
Details: You currently have configured Akonadi to use the MySQL server '/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi'.
Make sure you have the MySQL server installed, set the correct path and ensure you have the necessary read and execution rights on the server executable. The server executable is typically called 'mysqld', its locations varies depending on the distribution.

Test 3: SUCCESS
--------

MySQL server is executable.
Details: MySQL server found: /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi Ver 5.1.41-3ubuntu11 for debian-linux-gnu on i486 ((Ubuntu))

Test 4: ERROR
--------

MySQL server log contains errors.
Details: The MySQL server error log file &apos;<a href='/home/marius/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'>/home/marius/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err</a>&apos; contains errors.

File content of '/home/marius/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err':
100627 9:44:49 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
InnoDB: No valid checkpoint found.
InnoDB: If this error appears when you are creating an InnoDB database,
InnoDB: the problem may be that during an earlier attempt you managed
InnoDB: to create the InnoDB data files, but log file creation failed.
InnoDB: If that is the case, please refer to
InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/error-creating-innodb.html
100627 9:44:49 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
100627 9:44:49 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
100627 9:44:49 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported table type: innodb
100627 9:44:49 [ERROR] Aborting

100627 9:44:49 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Shutdown complete

Test 5: SUCCESS
--------

MySQL server default configuration found.
Details: The default configuration for the MySQL server was found and is readable at <a href='/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf'>/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf</a>.

File content of '/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf':
#
# Global Akonadi MySQL server settings,
# These settings can be adjusted using $HOME/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf
#
# Based on advice by Kris Köhntopp <email address hidden>
...

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Please report individual bug reports. Thank you.

[Thomas Serries (ts1-serries-online)]

@Harald Sitter: Who was addressed by your last commend? Do you want me to open individual issues for the three symptoms I described? Or do you want Marius Gronewald to open an individual issue?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Both of you.