Hi all, I've been using kde on this machine for several months, now. But suddenly, akonadi won't start: ===================================================================== mdiehl@mikeworkstation:~$ akonadictl start Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) mdiehl@mikeworkstation:~$ org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid") org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: "" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "mysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Failed to open required defaults file: /home/mdiehl/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nmysqld-akonadi: [ERROR] Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted!\n" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1 org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error" mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket' exists! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to remove runtime connection config file org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally... ===================================================================== Any ideas would be most appreciated. Mike.