Comment 65 for bug 554514

Guys this bug should be highest priority, it is a SHOWSTOPPER!!
An operating system without mail and addresses is doomed! Such a fragile Framework such as akonadi shoud be removed from the distro at this stage of development, it messes it up!
Not only for newcomers, I have accumulated hundrets of addresses o9ver the past years and currently cannot access them!!! this is crazy!

I have installed Lucid on 3 computers, and on non of them akonadi works. All 3 have been new installes but used home dirs from 9.04 and 8.04 kubuntu.

I have tried a lot of things that I found on the web. Some of them could fix the problem only temporarily. (like putting the path on XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share
or autostart akonadi).

After I put exported XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share my old addresses showed up but the next time I logged in akonadi was dead again, showing me some database issues.

checking strigi in Nepomog config worked for 1 session then nothing worked anymore, but I am not sure whether strigi has been the reason as it appears inactive!?

autostart akonadi did not work

Below some more logs in the hope this might help.

Here is akonadiserver.error:
Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/joerg/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/joerg/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/joerg/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket")
stdout: ""
stderr: ""
exit code: 1
process error: "Unknown error"

Here is a log after $ akonadictl start
[akonadiserver] /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/home/xxx/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket' (2) when trying to connect
[akonadiserver] FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed
[akonadiserver] Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!

comment mysql.socket does not exist in '/home/xxx/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/'