[gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

[Mick]

First some general observations that relate to kmail2:

I thought of giving the latest kmail-4.12.5 a spin.  So installed it on a 
machine and set up a couple of IMAP4 servers to get messages from.  An account 
with a messages in the low hundreds works fine.  An account with messages in 
the 100k plus range works like a dog.  While kmail fetches headers and then 
akonadi sets off to organise threads and whatever else it wants to do the 
application becomes pretty much unresponsive and the CPU climbs up to 98%.  
Half an hour later I can get back to it.  :-@

Anyway, this is not the current problem.  I updated mysql to 5.5.39, then I 
kmail would not start with akonadi failing with "mysql log containing errors".  
So I ran:

 mysql_upgrade --socket=/tmp/akonadi-michael.NFvLpB/mysql.socket

which completed without an error.  Kmail still failed to start.  Trying to 
start akonadi console states:

"Failed to connect to database.  Driver not loaded"

Then the pop up Details window says MySQL log contains errors, just like when 
I try to start kmail.  This is what I see in 
.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err:

InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
140809 20:58:42  InnoDB: Unable to open the first data file
InnoDB: Error in opening ./ibdata1
140809 20:58:42  InnoDB: Operating system error number 11 in a file operation.
InnoDB: Error number 11 means 'Resource temporarily unavailable'.
InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at
InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/operating-system-error-codes.html
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: Could not open or create data files.
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed 
here,
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf 
back
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB 
created
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files 
full of
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be 
careful: do not
140809 20:58:42 InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious 
data!
140809 20:58:42 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
140809 20:58:42 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE 
failed.
140809 20:58:42 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: innodb
140809 20:58:42 [ERROR] Aborting


So I moved ./ibdata* and tried again with the same error.  Is there something 
else I should be doing here to get this going?

-- 
Regards,
Mick