Anyone solve the Akonadi problem?

[metcalsr]

Hey guys, I love the Manjaro ARM and, despite some reservations, I wiped my XFCE install and reinstalled the KDE version. Unfortunately, Akonadi, a pretty essential tool for most of KDE's software, just flat out doesn't work. My buddy installed Akonadi as well and had the same issue. This is pretty disappointing as it severely limits the benefits of running KDE. Has anyone found a solution to this?

[wove]

Hey guys, I love the Manjaro ARM and, despite some reservations, I wiped my XFCE install and reinstalled the KDE version. Unfortunately, Akonadi, a pretty essential tool for most of KDE's software, just flat out doesn't work. My buddy installed Akonadi as well and had the same issue. This is pretty disappointing as it severely limits the benefits of running KDE. Has anyone found a solution to this?

I certainly agree that Akonadi is essential for the software I use with KDE. I spent a few hours working on with it without any success. As far as I recall Arch and Manjaro have both had issues with Akonadi working out of the box, and from what I gather in their forums a solution for the matter is a low priority.

bill

[ryanobeirne]

I had this problem on Manjaro KDE as well. I was able to get Akonadi running by fixing some permissions problems on the default mariadb/MySQL package installation. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I'm pretty sure it was just chowning a directory in /var somewhere. If I can find what I did, I'll report back.

Edit: This is what I did: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9099557
chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql
chgrp -R mysql /var/lib/mysql

Once MySQL was up, I had to use the system-wide MySQL socket (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE...L_instance) at `/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock`to get Akonadi to start. It just wouldn't use the default socket in `/run/user/1000/akonadi...`. It would create the socket, but couldn't make the database for some reason.

Korganizer and kcontact work well, but now my problem is with kmail crashing whenever it tries to render any list of messages. I think it's a GPU or openGL issue.

[wove]

I had this problem on Manjaro KDE as well. I was able to get Akonadi running by fixing some permissions problems on the default mariadb/MySQL package installation. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I'm pretty sure it was just chowning a directory in /var somewhere. If I can find what I did, I'll report back.

Edit: This is what I did: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9099557
chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql
chgrp -R mysql /var/lib/mysql

Once MySQL was up, I had to use the system-wide MySQL socket (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE...L_instance) at `/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock`to get Akonadi to start. It just wouldn't use the default socket in `/run/user/1000/akonadi...`. It would create the socket, but couldn't make the database for some reason.

Korganizer and kcontact work well, but now my problem is with kmail crashing whenever it tries to render any list of messages. I think it's a GPU or openGL issue.

I wanted to thank you for your information. I was able to get Kontact working after following your information.

bill