Akonadi goes mad

[Jeroen De Dauw]

Since today Akonadi goes mad when I login. A whole pile of akonadi_agent_launcher processes and other akonadi_ stuff get created, taking up 100% CPU and going on until all memory is taken and the system hangs. Killing akonadi_maildispatcher_agent appear to stop the spawning of new processes. I have this on every login.

How can I get rid of this stuff? Is Akonadi actually needed? If not I can just remove it I guess...

Kubuntu 11.10, x64, fully updated

[ubuntuku]

Re: Akonadi goes mad

Yes you can get rid of it -> http://ubuntuku.org/16/how-to-disable-nepomuk-akonadi/

[Jeroen De Dauw]

Re: Akonadi goes mad

Thanks, that worked.

Apparently removing nepomuk is also a bad idea

[SteveRiley]

Re: Akonadi goes mad

I've stumbled across a truly hacky way to get rid of it, but it's very brittle and quite possibly might cause future update problems, not to mention kill your pets and rip a hole in the spacetime continuum. The steps below also remove Strigi and Akonadi.

$ sudo -i
# cd /
# for i in `find -iname '*akonadi*'`; do rm -rvf $i; done
# for i in `find -iname '*nepomuk*'`; do rm -rvf $i; done
# for i in `find -iname '*strigi*'`; do rm -rvf $i; done
# apt-get --reinstall install libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libnepomukutils4
# reboot

The reinstall is required; kdeinit fails to start if those libs are missing. I can't find reference to them in any .conf files, I'm wondering if it's hardcoded...?

I offer no guarantees if you try the above. It works on my Oneiric and Precise systems.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Akonadi goes mad

...you forgot cats and dogs sleeping together...

[SteveRiley]

Re: Akonadi goes mad

Up here in the damp dark Pacific northwest, sometimes a little hot canine-feline action is the only entertainment we get. Plus, I figured the spectre of a canine-feline mashup doesn't have the shock value it used to. Now if the cat were vegetarian...that would be sumthin