akonadi problem since a recent update

["René J.V. Bertin"]

Hello,

On May 23, 2014, at 14:13, Nicolas Pavillon wrote:

>> I notice that the default is now to use a mariadb backend, but even if I install that akonadi variant, how am I to reconfigure the server if I cannot get to the server configuration dialog (which I only know how to open through akonadiconsole)?
> 
> One common solution to this type of issues is to remove (or move out of the way) the preferences file of the application, located in ~/Library/Preferences/KDE/share/config, to let the application start afresh. Did you try that?

Yes, of course - and I tried to remove both ~/Library/Preferences/KDE/share/config/akonadiconsolerc and ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc . Since I removed the former, akonadiconsole no longer gets beyond the initial window alerting the user to the fact it's a development app.

I also tried to remove the ~/Library/Preferences/KDE/share/apps/messageviewer directory altogether - and guess what, ~/Library/Preferences/KDE/share/apps/messageviewer/themes was recreated. On OS X as well as on my Linux installs (which have KDE 4.12 and KDE 4.13) the themes directories in question are empty.

Googling the error I get some stale results, and the impression it's (more) common in the 4.12 -> 4.13 update ... but that cannot be the issue here.

R.