OK... Thanks guys great job fixing everything... Things are working beautifully. Last couple of issues that I'm quoting from the last entry in the bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563789 Fixed what I thought were mising error log messages but infact messages stating that "old" error log messages existed. Fixed that by simply deleting the old error logs. One final issue.... After testing the Akonadi installaton, I constantly got the errors in the mysql error logs that stated. 091029 12:23:04 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table 'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them 091029 12:23:04 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist After some digging.... I found the solution at: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78358 Which goes on to suggest: akonadictl stop rm -r ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data mysql_install_db --datadir=$HOME/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ akonadictl start That did the trick.... Which means that Akonadi does not correctly initialize the mysql database on first run. Which I guess needs to be corrected. Thanks to everyone for your usual and remarkably timely response to this issue Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.