On Saturday 24 January 2009 10:51:47 Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm not sure what's going on here. ?I see that sometimes, but at other > times it moves on just as quickly as it ever did. ?So far I haven't noticed > any pattern to the behaviour. For me, it's every time - first it says it's processing messages, then threads, then groups. Once the numbers count down, the message I'm trying to read appears. I went into System Settings/Akonadi Configuration and clicked on the 'Test' button and I got a list that contained some errors - one said 'My Sequel Server Log Contains Errors'; If I clicked on the error this appeared: "The MySQL server error log file '/home/cj/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err' contains errors." and opening that, I found a great list, which in part contained the following: ****************************************************** InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. 090118 22:34:47 InnoDB: Unable to open the first data file InnoDB: Error in opening ./ibdata1 090118 22:34:47 InnoDB: Operating system error number 11 in a file operation. InnoDB: Error number 11 means 'Resource temporarily unavailable'. InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/operating-system-error- codes.html InnoDB: Could not open or create data files. InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here, InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data! 090118 22:34:47 [ERROR] Default storage engine (InnoDB) is not available 090118 22:34:47 [ERROR] Aborting 090118 22:34:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete ******************************************************** These are dated several days back, so I don't know if they're relevant to my issue, but, does anyone know what they mean? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD