After the latest update yesterday evening, aside from Konsole forgetting where the tab bar was located Akonadi won't start anymore. Manual checking leads up to this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ~> Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld for Akonadi is already running, trying to connect to it. /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'akonadi' when selecting the database This installation of MariaDB is already upgraded to 10.11.2-MariaDB. There is no need to run mysql_upgrade again for 10.11.2-MariaDB. You can use --force if you still want to run mysql_upgrade org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to create database org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Query error: "Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'akonadi' QMYSQL: Unable to execute query" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database error: "" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited normally... ~> mysql --defaults-file=/home/gratz/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf --socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket --user=gratz Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 46 Server version: 10.11.2-MariaDB MariaDB package Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> status -------------- mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.2-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper Connection id: 46 Current database: Current user: gratz@localhost SSL: Not in use Current pager: less Using outfile: '' Using delimiter: ; Server: MariaDB Server version: 10.11.2-MariaDB MariaDB package Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset: utf8mb3 Db characterset: utf8mb3 Client characterset: utf8mb3 Conn. characterset: utf8mb3 UNIX socket: /run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket Uptime: 35 min 37 sec Threads: 2 Questions: 821 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 294 Open tables: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.384 -------------- MariaDB [(none)]> use akonadi; ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'akonadi' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Does anyone have an idea why suddenly the user name doesn't seem to get through to the DB instance anymore, which I think is why it doesn't work? Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+