Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

[Mick]

On Friday 29 May 2015 16:36:59 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2015 16:19:38 Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed
> > > finally [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with
> > > metadata > 1.0) was not being started.
> > >
> > > [1]	Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and
> > > re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied
> > > the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did
> > > not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet
> > > though.
> >
> > Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it
> > instead of creating a new user?  You will have to be patient, probably
> > let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your
> > messages.
>
> I don't think I dare risk it:
>
> $ find . -name \*akonadi\* | wc
>      49      49    2665
> $ find . -name \*akonadi\*dat | wc
>      13      13     901
>
> How would I know which to delete and which to leave alone? No, it may be
> more work to start again with a clean slate, but at least I can be
> confident of not screwing anything up too badly.

This is how I would try it out:

1. Create a back up of your complete /home.
2. akonadictl stop
3. Rename/move ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ (or delete it since you now 
have a back up of this mess).
4. akonadictl start.

Then go and make a brew, because this can take some time.  I have hundreds of 
thousands of messages, so mine takes forever.  I even thought of deleting most 
of my Google messages to accelerate this process, if I ever move to Kmail2.

-- 
Regards,
Mick