I got a similar issue with kontact/akonadi (No resource agents have been found). $ sudo aa-complain mysqld [sudo] password for gerhard: Setting /usr/sbin/mysqld to complain mode. $ sudo aa-complain mysqld-akonadi Setting /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld-akonadi to complain mode. $ sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload * Reloading AppArmor profiles Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox-3.7 Warning: found usr.bin.freshclam in /etc/apparmor.d/force-complain, forcing complain mode Warning: found usr.sbin.mysqld in /etc/apparmor.d/force-complain, forcing complain mode Warning: found usr.sbin.ntpd in /etc/apparmor.d/force-complain, forcing complain mode $ akonadictl restart [...] [akonadiserver] Found mysql_upgrade: "/usr/bin/mysql_upgrade" "akonadiserver" [out] "Looking for 'mysql' as: /usr/bin/mysql " "akonadiserver" [out] "Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck " "akonadiserver" [out] "Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '--socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--socket=/home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket' " [akonadiserver] /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket' (2) when trying to connect [akonadiserver] FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed [akonadiserver] Database "akonadi" opened using driver "QMYSQL" [akonadiserver] DbInitializer::run() [...] $ mysqlcheck --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --socket=/home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket -g -a --auto-repair akonadi akonadi.collectionattributetable OK akonadi.collectionmimetyperelation OK akonadi.collectionpimitemrelation OK akonadi.collectiontable OK akonadi.flagtable OK akonadi.mimetypetable OK akonadi.parttable OK akonadi.pimitemflagrelation OK akonadi.pimitemtable OK akonadi.resourcetable OK akonadi.schemaversiontable OK $ cat $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err 100717 13:59:35 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 100717 13:59:36 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 3093356 100717 13:59:36 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: ready for connections. Version: '5.1.41-3ubuntu11-log' socket: '/home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket' port: 0 (Ubuntu) $ grep -i ERR $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err.old|sort -u 100608 19:05:39 [ERROR] Aborting 100608 19:05:39 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 100608 19:05:39 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed. 100608 19:05:39 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported table type: innodb 100608 19:05:39 InnoDB: Operating system error number 11 in a file operation. InnoDB: Error in opening ./ibdata1 InnoDB: Error number 11 means 'Resource temporarily unavailable'. InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/operating-system-error-codes.html InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 $ ls -l /home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ibdata1 -rw-rw---- 1 gerhard gerhard 10485760 2010-07-17 13:59 /home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ibdata1 $ file /home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ibdata1 /home/gerhard/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ibdata1: data but these InnoDB errors are logged in mysql.err.old After doing all this Stuff I'm able to open the kontact addressbook, but restarting aconadi gives still error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket [akonadiserver] FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed The error still remain the same after moving the ib_logfiles: $ mv $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_logfile0 $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/_ib_logfile0 $ mv $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_logfile1 $HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/_ib_logfile1 What I didn't tried yet: 1. Stop akonadi and close kontact 2. mv .local/share/akonadi .local/share/akonadi.bak 3. sudo aa-complain mysqld-akonadi 4. start akonadi (akonadictl start)