Bug#882833: kontact fails to start - complains Akonadi service is unavailable

[Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>]

Package: kontact
Version: 4:16.04.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
been upgrading my Debian/Buster workstation each evening
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
tried reinstalling akonadi-server
   * What was the outcome of this action?
same problem
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I would like Kontact to be usable.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kontact depends on:
ii  kdepim-runtime               4:16.04.2-2+b2
ii  kio                          5.37.0-2
ii  libc6                        2.25-2
ii  libgcc1                      1:7.2.0-16
ii  libkf5completion5            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5configcore5            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5configgui5             5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5configwidgets5         5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5coreaddons5            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5grantleetheme-plugins  16.04.3-1
ii  libkf5grantleetheme5         16.04.3-1
ii  libkf5i18n5                  5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5iconthemes5            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5identitymanagement5    16.04.2-1
ii  libkf5kcmutils5              5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5kdepimdbusinterfaces5  4:16.04.2-2
ii  libkf5kiowidgets5            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5kontactinterface5      16.04.2-1
ii  libkf5libkdepim-plugins      4:16.04.2-3
ii  libkf5libkdepim5             4:16.04.2-3
ii  libkf5parts5                 5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5service-bin            5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5service5               5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5webkit5                5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5widgetsaddons5         5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5windowsystem5          5.37.0-2
ii  libkf5xmlgui5                5.37.0-2
ii  libqt5core5a                 5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5dbus5                  5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5gui5                   5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5webkit5                5.9.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5widgets5               5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii  libstdc++6                   7.2.0-16

Versions of packages kontact recommends:
ii  accountwizard  4:16.04.3-4
ii  akregator      4:16.04.3-4
ii  kaddressbook   4:16.04.3-4
ii  kmail          4:16.04.3-4
ii  knotes         4:16.04.3-4
ii  korganizer     4:16.04.3-4

Versions of packages kontact suggests:
pn  gnokii  <none>

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