Akonadi does not start Debian Buster

[Dimitris Paraschou <jimpar@algo.gr>]

Hello everybody,


After upgrading to akonadi 18.08.3-4 akonadi does not start anymore


The log of akonadictl start


org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Using mysqld: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld reports version 10.3.13 (MariaDB)
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Executing: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" 
"--defaults-file=/home/jim/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf 
--datadir=/home/jim/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ 
--socket=/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/mysql.socket 
--pid-file=/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/mysql.pid"
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/jim/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", 
"--datadir=/home/jim/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", 
"--socket=/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/mysql.socket", 
"--pid-file=/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/mysql.pid")
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "Could not open required defaults 
file: /home/jim/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nFatal error in defaults 
handling. Program aborted\n"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating connection threads
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating service threads
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stopping db process
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/mysql.socket' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: 
'/tmp/akonadi-jim.5qGLAh/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 'akonadiserver' exited normally..



Thank yoy

Dimitris