On Saturday 02 January 2010 13:11:42 Andreas Petzold wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:41:53 Andreas Petzold wrote: > > Hi, > > > > yesterday, I've installed the 4.3.85 packages on my F12-i686 machine. > > Thanks a lot to Rex and the other people from the KDE-SIG for providing > > the packages! > > > > >From previous postings I was expecting quite a lot of trouble with > > > akonadi, > > > > and sure enough akonadi doesn't start during kde startup. > > However, once kde is up and running I can start akonadi w/o problems from > > System Settings->Akonadi, WTF? When I run the test, two problems are > > highlighted. Are you sure you haven't some old packages hanging around. From KDE 4.4. beta 1 and up System Settings -> Akonadi no longer exists. See also [1] Martin Kho [1] http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=84478&sid=e91bd79ba1438307f1b1cd572058efab > > > > 1) MySQL server log contains errors. > > > > 100102 9:36:11 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table > > 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist > > > > I've found the following userbase entry: > > > > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Table_.27mysql._servers.27_doesn.27t_exis > >t > > > > I haven't tried the recommended fix yet, because I'm a bit confused. I'm > > supposed to modify a default akonadi config file to make akonadi work in > > the first place? Seriously? Should I bugzilla this for Fedora if the fix > > works? > > > > 2) Previous Akonadi server log error found > > > > Control process died, committing suicide! > > > > I expect to find something like this because akonadi didn't start > > correctly at kde startup. But why does it start w/o any problem when I > > start it manually? Kontact doesn't work correctly as long as akonadi > > isn't running. For instance, while it shows the mail subject in the > > message list pane, it doesn't display the mail contents. > > I've attached the error log of akonadi with all the errors it shows right > after kde startup. I repeat, akonadi starts fine, if started manually, so > these errors can't be real or they may be the result of a race condition > during startup. > > Cheers, > > Andreas >