Comments on: Linux / Akonadi: The QtSQL driver ‘QMYSQL’ is required by your current Akonadi server configuration.

By: Kevin Krammer

Kevin Krammer — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:44:50 +0000

Akonadi runs as part of the user session, so it runs as root if you run your desktop session as root (bad idea)

Configuring a user for mysql is only necessary if you want to use a system level mysqld instance, not the usual stand-alone instance started by Akonadi with files and sockets in the user’s home directory.

By: Tom Kacperski

Tom Kacperski — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:09:56 +0000

Hey Kapz,

Appreciate the feedback.

I’m assuming here that you’ve received the same error in the akonadiserver.error file as outlined in red above and that your path /root/.config/akonadi/ exists even though there may be no files in it.

In this case follow step 3 above which will create the mysql-local.conf file for you. In case it doesn’t work, you can always remove the mysql-local.conf file later on.

Thanks,

By: kapz

kapz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:18:53 +0000

hey there, glad that u found solution for yourself.

But I dont have any type or kind of conf file in /root/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf.

Please help what can I do.
KDE 4.2 on Archlinux.

I have folder as /root/.config/akonadi/

but no files in it!!!!!!!!!!! Help! please