Running Ubuntu 10.10 now, but same problems with 10.04.
Kmail Version 1.13.5

I'm having problems with Akonadi and kmail . Not only trying to fix this but to understand it.

'Use internal MySQL server' is checked. When I execute the Test button I get errors. Previously I had MySQL installed in my LAMP server for local website testing.

The akonadi server and MySQL appear to be running, and in addition to things that work, here is a short list of things that look suspicious to me.
- Akonadi is not running as root
- MySQL server log contains error (I can include other details)
- Nepomuk not registered at D-Bus

Where do I start in order to understand this. Should I be trying to get Nepomuk running first ? Should Akonadi be running as root ?

Thanks for any advice or request for additional information.

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_4.4/Troubleshooting and
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook

are good places to start looking.

Thank you for the references which I have looked at. I can't find my help there.

When I start the akonadi server from the command line the first error I see is "Nepomuk Query Server not available".

However, when I run Ubuntu "system monitor" a process called nepomukserver is present.

I am finding very little information on Nepomuk. Any help here ?

I do use kmail by working around these errors. It would be easier to just use the native solution for gnome, but there are several features of kmail that I really like.

Akonadi runs per user, and should not be run as root.
I suggest you ensure that "Virtuoso" is installed, and being used.

What is the output of:

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qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
qdbus org.kde.NepomukStorage /nepomukstorage usedSopranoBackend

Thank you for the 'no root' guidance.

Following packages marked as installed per the synaptic package manager:

virtuoso-minimal
virtuoso-opensource-6.1.bin
viuoso-opensource-6.1-common
libvirtodbc0

The answers to your questions:

qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
The answer was "false"

qdbus org.kde.NepomukStorage /nepomukstorage usedSopranoBackend
Service 'org.kde.NepomukStorage' does not exist.

Ok, please enable Nepomuk. You do not need to have Strigi enabled. This can be done from System Settings.

The instructions made sense but only after I installed the kde desktop as an alternative desktop.

thanks