kmail/akonadi problem, new disk, clean install of tumbleweed 20160525

To minimise difficulty n a two user system I archived $home from a system running 13.2 - installed a new disk - clean installed tumbleweed 20160525 - restored $home - everything is fine except kmail.

Opened kmail in the hope that it would “just work” but akonadi isn’t running and I’m not sure how to restore the existing kmail database

kmail does not appear to be functional, yet, until I’ve solved the import/restore I don’t want to use it in case I create version incompatibility problems

The akonadi problem appears to have been discussed at length in relation to incompatibilities between versions but it’s a clean install so I’m not mixing stacks

Grateful for advice, never found kmail migration easy:

trying manual start gets this:



~> akonadictl start
Starting Akonadi Server...
   done.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
c...a@linux-6dbk:~> QCommandLineParser: option not defined: "start-without-control"
search paths:  ("/home/c...a/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/bin/X11", "/usr/games", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin")
Found mysql_install_db:  "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db"
Found mysqlcheck:  "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck"
akonadi.collectionattributetable                   OK
akonadi.collectionmimetyperelation                 OK
akonadi.collectionpimitemrelation                  OK
akonadi.collectiontable                            OK
akonadi.flagtable                                  OK
akonadi.mimetypetable                              OK
akonadi.parttable                                  OK
akonadi.parttypetable                              OK
akonadi.pimitemflagrelation                        OK
akonadi.pimitemtable                               OK
akonadi.pimitemtagrelation                         OK
akonadi.relationtable
Error    : Table 'akonadi.relationtable' doesn't exist in engine
status   : Operation failed
akonadi.relationtypetable
Error    : Table 'akonadi.relationtypetable' doesn't exist in engine
status   : Operation failed
akonadi.resourcetable                              OK
akonadi.schemaversiontable                         OK
akonadi.tagattributetable                          OK
akonadi.tagremoteidresourcerelationtable           OK
akonadi.tagtable                                   OK
akonadi.tagtypetable                               OK
mysql.column_stats                                 OK
mysql.columns_priv                                 OK
mysql.db                                           OK
mysql.event                                        OK
mysql.func                                         OK
mysql.gtid_slave_pos
Error    : Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist in engine
status   : Operation failed
mysql.help_category                                OK
mysql.help_keyword                                 OK
mysql.help_relation                                OK
mysql.help_topic                                   OK
mysql.host                                         OK
mysql.index_stats                                  OK
mysql.innodb_index_stats
Error    : Table 'mysql.innodb_index_stats' doesn't exist in engine
status   : Operation failed
mysql.innodb_table_stats
Error    : Table 'mysql.innodb_table_stats' doesn't exist in engine
status   : Operation failed
mysql.ndb_binlog_index                             OK
mysql.plugin                                       OK
mysql.proc                                         OK
mysql.procs_priv                                   OK
mysql.proxies_priv                                 OK
mysql.roles_mapping                                OK
mysql.servers                                      OK
mysql.table_stats                                  OK
mysql.tables_priv                                  OK
mysql.time_zone                                    OK
mysql.time_zone_leap_second                        OK
mysql.time_zone_name                               OK
mysql.time_zone_transition                         OK
mysql.time_zone_transition_type                    OK
mysql.user                                         OK

Repairing tables
test.relationtable
Error    : Table 'test.relationtable' doesn't exist
status   : Operation failed
test.relationtypetable
Error    : Table 'test.relationtypetable' doesn't exist
status   : Operation failed
test.gtid_slave_pos
Error    : Table 'test.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist
status   : Operation failed
test.innodb_index_stats
Error    : Table 'test.innodb_index_stats' doesn't exist
status   : Operation failed
test.innodb_table_stats
Error    : Table 'test.innodb_table_stats' doesn't exist
status   : Operation failed
MySQL version OK (required "5.1" , available "10.0" )
Database "akonadi" opened using driver "QMYSQL"
DbInitializer::run()
checking table  "SchemaVersionTable"
checking table  "ResourceTable"
checking table  "CollectionTable"
checking table  "MimeTypeTable"
checking table  "PimItemTable"
checking table  "FlagTable"
checking table  "PartTypeTable"
checking table  "PartTable"
checking table  "CollectionAttributeTable"
checking table  "TagTypeTable"
checking table  "TagTable"
checking table  "TagAttributeTable"
checking table  "TagRemoteIdResourceRelationTable"
checking table  "RelationTypeTable"
"ALTER TABLE RelationTypeTable ADD COLUMN id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY"
"
Sql error: Table 'akonadi.relationtypetable' doesn't exist in engine QMYSQL: Unable to execute query
Query: ALTER TABLE RelationTypeTable ADD COLUMN id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY"
Unable to initialize database.
terminating service threads
terminating connection threads
stopping db process
Application 'akonadiserver' exited normally...

I make no claims for elegance but it worked…

created a third account on new install - no files - kmail seemed happy, no akonadi problems

so it seems that while not mixing stacks on a clean install, restoring a complete user account mixes settings

Went back to original files - used kmail export filter to create an email archive for both accounts.

with new system - for each account I nuked all hidden files in local folder - there were probably many I didn’t need to nuke but I definitely didn’t want anything associated with the previous software versions being left behind

restarted the account,

opened kmail

it was sweet

imported the email archive

re-established the mailer settings (a bit of a pain, but not as painful as a non-functional kmail…)

now working and very nice the new kmail is too

with one footnote

for sending emails TLS seems to get set by default (i.e., both users on the new system) - modifying the sending account has two tabs - general/advanced - salvation lies in the advanced tab

FWIW

more elegant versions of the above gratefully received

gerrygavigan wrote on 02.06.2016 01:06:
> more elegant versions of the above gratefully received

Not more elegant, but I ran into the same issue after installing on a new disk.
I copied the /home first, and after another install, everything was fine. My guess is, upon the first boot with a blank /home, Akonadi configures the database and once you copy over your old /home, it conflicts with the settings Akonadi made.

Uwe