When I start KMail I get gobbledygook in the Message window. When I run "sudo akonadictl restart" I am told akonadi is not running. I see no way to start it. ========================= [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl start [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl restart Akonadi is not running. [tim@william ~]$ /bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/akonadi- root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket' (2 "No such file or directory")' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/akonadi- root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket' exists!
[tim@william ~]$ ps aux | grep mysql tim 1708 0.5 1.5 2568696 127296 ? Sl 17:06 0:05 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults- file=/home/tim/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf -- datadir=/home/tim/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/tmp/akonadi- tim.G41xdj/mysql.socket
[tim@william ~]$ sudo ls /tmp/akonadi-root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket ls: cannot access '/tmp/akonadi-root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket': No such file or directory =========================
I've been getting the KMail message mix-up for some days, but have always been able to recover with "sudo akonadictl restar".
But today after the latest updates I get the above.
Any advice or elucidation gratefully received.
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 5:30:52 PM CDT Timothy Murphy wrote:
When I start KMail I get gobbledygook in the Message window. When I run "sudo akonadictl restart" I am told akonadi is not running. I see no way to start it. ========================= [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl start [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl restart
I wouldn't think you'd want sudo here. akonadi should run as you:
[tim@william ~]$ akonadictl restart
-A
Am 29.10.2016 um 20:49 schrieb Anthony Joseph Messina:
On Saturday, October 29, 2016 5:30:52 PM CDT Timothy Murphy wrote:
When I start KMail I get gobbledygook in the Message window. When I run "sudo akonadictl restart" I am told akonadi is not running. I see no way to start it. ========================= [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl start [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl restart
I wouldn't think you'd want sudo here. akonadi should run as you:
[tim@william ~]$ akonadictl restart
idependent of other problems and real bugs - users should just stop to type "sudo" in front of everyting - if something don't need root power just don't give it root power and anything in context of your desktop NEVER EVER needs root power
basically the same mistake as people train their spamassassin as root and wonder why the bayes don't work when the distribution was smart enough not to start spamassassin as root
Anthony Joseph Messina wrote:
When I start KMail I get gobbledygook in the Message window. When I run "sudo akonadictl restart" I am told akonadi is not running. I see no way to start it. ========================= [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl start [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl restart
I wouldn't think you'd want sudo here. akonadi should run as you:
[tim@william ~]$ akonadictl restart
Thank you. I should indeed have omitted "sudo".
However, the fact remains that KMail is in an extremely unstable state. I just re-booted (for other reasons) and KMail is working fine. But sometimes it goes into an unuseable state, for no reason that I can see. It seems to be connected to akonadi.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
However, the fact remains that KMail is in an extremely unstable state. I just re-booted (for other reasons) and KMail is working fine. But sometimes it goes into an unuseable state, for no reason that I can see. It seems to be connected to akonadi.
After posting this, I opened KMail, and it was in an unuseable state. I closed it, ran "akonadictl restart" (without "sudo"), and it is working fine.
But why do I have to run akonadictl repeatedly?
On Sunday, October 30, 2016 12:45:24 PM CDT Timothy Murphy wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
However, the fact remains that KMail is in an extremely unstable state. I just re-booted (for other reasons) and KMail is working fine. But sometimes it goes into an unuseable state, for no reason that I can see. It seems to be connected to akonadi.
After posting this, I opened KMail, and it was in an unuseable state. I closed it, ran "akonadictl restart" (without "sudo"), and it is working fine.
But why do I have to run akonadictl repeatedly?
Take a look at the logs in .local/share/akonadi/ to see if there any akonadi startup errors. -A
Anthony Joseph Messina wrote:
After posting this, I opened KMail, and it was in an unuseable state. I closed it, ran "akonadictl restart" (without "sudo"), and it is working fine.
But why do I have to run akonadictl repeatedly?
Take a look at the logs in .local/share/akonadi/ to see if there any akonadi startup errors. -A
When I run "akonadictl restart" I get a list of 19 akonadi "tests", all of which are "ok", such as akonadi.pimitemtable OK I do not have any error file in ~/.local/share/akonadi/ (I just have an empty file akonadictl.error.old .)
I have absolutely no idea what I would (or should) do if I were told that akonadi.pimitemtable was not OK. To me it is just one of the senseless messages that I now get from all too many KDE applications.
I would rather just be told what is not working, and what to do about it, or at least where to find more about the problem.
Does no-one now believe in Ken Thompson's mantra, "A program should do one thing, and do it well" ?
On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 12:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Does no-one now believe in Ken Thompson's mantra, "A program should do one thing, and do it well" ?
I'm afraid the mere existence of "desktop environments" (rather then simply GUIs or window managers) is incompatible with that laudable aim.
poc
Il 31/10/2016 12:52, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 12:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Does no-one now believe in Ken Thompson's mantra, "A program should do one thing, and do it well" ?
I'm afraid the mere existence of "desktop environments" (rather then simply GUIs or window managers) is incompatible with that laudable aim.
+1
And "desktop integration" adds more gas to the fire.
Giuliano
Giuliano Colla wrote:
Does no-one now believe in Ken Thompson's mantra, "A program should do one thing, and do it well" ?
I'm afraid the mere existence of "desktop environments" (rather then simply GUIs or window managers) is incompatible with that laudable aim.
And "desktop integration" adds more gas to the fire.
That may be true. But it doesn't alter the fact that KMail is absurdly complicated. What does akonadi add to KMail? I assume it should make integration with Kontact better, but in fact it is even worse than it was before, which is saying something.
On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 12:00 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Giuliano Colla wrote:
Does no-one now believe in Ken Thompson's mantra, "A program should do one thing, and do it well" ?
I'm afraid the mere existence of "desktop environments" (rather then simply GUIs or window managers) is incompatible with that laudable aim.
And "desktop integration" adds more gas to the fire.
That may be true. But it doesn't alter the fact that KMail is absurdly complicated. What does akonadi add to KMail? I assume it should make integration with Kontact better, but in fact it is even worse than it was before, which is saying something.
I have no idea. I gave up on Kmail a very long time ago and use Evolution (under KDE). It has its own problems from time to time but in general I'm happy with it.
poc
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