Akonadi Broken

[Orcris]

I just upgraded to KDE 4.8, and when I opened Kontact I got a message saying Akonadi had had a fatal error. The log said that Akonadi is not registered as a Dbus. How do I fix this?

[andystmartin]

For me, Akonadi has been an issue as well. One way around Akonadi's problems is to eliminate the corruption that it is whining about. Since Akonadi is like a smart cache, purge the cache and let it rebuild. Here's what I do:
$ akonadictl stop
[wait until its finished stopping]
$ rm -r ~/.local/share/akonadi
$ akonadictl start
I lose some akonadi settings in the process but not any data.

This has been helpful for me during that last few upgrades of KDE which seem to leave akonadi in a corrupted state.

[woodsmoke]

thank you very much for the reply andystmartin,
I did not know that and it will be very helpful for the future.
woodsmoke

[Orcris]

Thanks. This really helped. I was trying to find a way to drop the database through MySQL. This is easier.