I have installed app-office/akonadi-server-1.1.0 and kde-base/akonadi-4.2.0 in order to be part of my KDE4.2 desktop. On startup, most of the time, akonadi fails to start with the following error log (Will be in next attachment, it's large). In addition I have run "akonadictl start" on the command line in order to get more error info. A message mentioned several times in the output is: "[akonadiserver] Did not find MySQL server default configuration (mysql-global.conf)" this file is nowhere to be found on my system, I can only assume it is supposed to be part of the akonadi-server package. Thank You Reproducible: Always $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc20 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7700_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:00:14 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" " SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 accessibility acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth boost branding bzip2 cairo captury cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curlcvs dbus debugger dell dhcp divx doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo examples expat fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac gdbm gif glibc-omitfp glitz gmp gnome gnutls google-gadgets gpm gstreamer gtk hal htmlhandbook iconv imagemagick innodb inotify ipod ipv6 ipw3945 isdnlog jadetex java java6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdeprefix kqemu lame ldap lesstif libnotify libwww lm_sensors mad mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mng mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses network-cron nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg openal openexr opengl openmp openssl oss pam pango pcap pch pcre pdf perl phonon phpplasma pmu png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session smp sockets spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcl tcpd templates theora threads tiff tivo tk truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l vcd vim-syntax vnc vorbis webkit wifi win32codecs wireshark wmf wmp wxwindows x86 xanim xcomposite xft xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xrandr xrender xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 180822 [details] akonadi error log
Also, I've just run: $ grep mysql /var/db/pkg/app-office/akonadi-server-1.1.0/CONTENTS which yielded the following results: obj /usr/share/config/akonadi/mysql-global.conf aa6f4e0409fb5aadcdb9e5d283b55faf 1230999101 So I am a little confused, because as root, suddenly I can see that directory (but only when root, normal user gets permission denied because /usr/share/config/ for some reason has 700 perms).
Just a follow up, adjusting the permissions of the /usr/share/config directory to be 755 fixes the issue with akonadi. Not sure which package created that directory and why it had such restrictive permissions.
This bug has been a hit and miss bug for a long time now for KDE-4. We still need to find out what is changing the perms of /usr/share/config to 700 instead of 755.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 261813 ***
