Hello.
Korganizer failed to start personal information management service, displaying an image of “A required background service is not operational.” In the terminal, it tries to start akonadiserver.
Full output:
beginResetModel called on Akonadi::TodoModel(0x56281b9e09b0, name = “TodoModel”) without calling endResetModel first
beginResetModel called on QIdentityProxyModel(0x56281b9b5260) without calling endResetModel first
beginResetModel called on TodoViewSortFilterProxyModel(0x56281b807d20) without calling endResetModel first
endResetModel called on Akonadi::TodoModel(0x56281b9e09b0, name = “TodoModel”) without calling beginResetModel first
endResetModel called on QIdentityProxyModel(0x56281b9b5260) without calling beginResetModel first
endResetModel called on TodoViewSortFilterProxyModel(0x56281b807d20) without calling beginResetModel first
org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running: 1
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
qt.qpa.services: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError(“org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed”, “Could not register app ID: App info not found for ‘org.kde.akonadi_control’”)
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server…
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to detect mysqld version!
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/bin/mariadb”
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: QList(“–defaults-file=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf”, “–datadir=/home/jc/.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: “/usr/bin/mariadb: unknown variable ‘datadir=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/’\\n/usr/bin/mariadb: unknown variable ‘pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid’\\n”
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 7
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: “Unknown error”
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: See “/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err” for more details
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer…
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application ‘/usr/bin/akonadiserver’ exited normally…
org.kde.pim.akonadicalendar: Search failed: “”
org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Failed to fetch tags: “”
org.kde.pim.akonadicore: Job error: “” for collection: QList()
I tried manually starting akonadiserver with “akonadictl start.” I got the familiar error:
org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server...
org.kde.pim.akonadictl: done.
$ Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
qt.qpa.services: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could not register app ID: App info not found for 'org.kde.akonadi_control'")
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to detect mysqld version!
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/bin/mariadb"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: QList("--defaults-file=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/jc/.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: "/usr/bin/mariadb: unknown variable 'datadir=/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/'\n/usr/bin/mariadb: unknown variable 'pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid'\n"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 7
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: See "/home/jc/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err" for more details
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally...
I am on Arch Linux, which uses mariadb’s implementation of mysql by default. The output above says that it failed to detect mysqld version. However, I was able to successfully run “mysqld --version” in the terminal:
mysqld --version
mysqld: Deprecated program name. It will be removed in a future release, use '/usr/bin/mariadbd' instead
mysqld Ver 12.1.2-MariaDB for Linux on x86_64 (Arch Linux)
Sooo… Where do I go from here? What do I do? How do I generally go about solving these types of problems?