Starting about a week ago when launching Kmail the GUI I get "The Akonadi personal information management service is not operational". Have tried reinstalling Akonadi and Kmail.

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Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0
Kernel Version: 5.8.1-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit

Running akonadi as verbose:

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[someUser@Endeavour akonadi]$ akonadictl --verbose start
org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server...
org.kde.pim.akonadictl:    done.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
[someUser@Endeavour akonadi]$ org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Found mysql_install_db:  "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Found mysqlcheck:  "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Using mysqld: "/usr/bin/mysqld"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld reports version 10.5.5 (MariaDB)
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Executing: "/usr/bin/mysqld" "--defaults-file=/home/someUser/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf --datadir=/home/someUser/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket --pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/bin/mysqld"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/someUser/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/someUser/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid")
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2020-08-21 11:44:53 0 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld (mysqld 10.5.5-MariaDB) starting as process 52386 ...\n"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating connection threads
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: terminating service threads
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stopping db process
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer...
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally...

Hi!

I just moved from KMail to Thunderbird because of this, possibly very same issue. I just came to pop in on this forum to see in case someone has a similar problem.

See my thread on Arch Linux forums. There's a bit more information there, including a few mariadb crash backtraces.

I'm not sure if the problem actually resides in mariadb, Akonadi or kmail, but this makes me think a bug report would be in order (in Arch bugzilla?).