Comment 19 for bug 1797643

Hi there,
I don't think this is solved in Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic!

Today I tried to open a new account for my wife. New user created using terminal and all correct permissions for home directory ownership etc applied.

Cannot use Kontact PIM due to Akonadi not starting correctly!

dorell@Kubasus:~$ akonadictl start
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
dorell@Kubasus:~$ WARNING: Could not write to config file /usr/my-new.cnf: Permission denied

FATAL ERROR: Neither host 'Kubasus' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with
/usr/bin/resolveip
Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct
hostname.
If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script
with the --force option
/usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1049: Unknown database 'akonadi' when selecting the database
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Agent instance "akonadi_baloo_indexer" has no interface!
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Agent instance "akonadi_baloo_indexer" has no interface!
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" )
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer' crashed! 1 restarts left.
QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer") is still running.
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" )
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer' crashed! 0 restarts left.
org.kde.pim.kidentitymanagement: IdentityManager: There was no default identity. Marking first one as default.
org.kde.pim.maildirresource: the resource is not properly configured: there is no config file for the resource. We create a new one.
org.kde.pim.kidentitymanagement: IdentityManager: There was no default identity. Marking first one as default.
QObject::killTimer: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
org.kde.pim.akonadi_indexer_agent: Xapian error in indexer: Document 2 not found

I created mkdir -p ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data as per the workaround but this has not helped.

I wonder if this is the same problem or a different one? I'm not sure but I know that I cannot use Kontact/KMail because Akonadi refuses to play.

I'm not a very advanced user buut I can follow instructions and use the Terminal when asked :) If I should provide further detail than please ask.

Thanks.

James