Bug 288112

Summary:	try harder if the default SQL driver is missing
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff>
Component:	server	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	minor	CC:	dvratil
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nick Shaforostoff 2011-12-03 09:39:06 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

please make akonadi search for available drivers and select first working one if the one specified in ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc is not available.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
use case:
kubuntu comes with akonadi-backend-mysql backend installed and configured by default, but i consider it to heavy for a netbook.

so i install akonadi-backend-sqlite, then uninstall akonadi-backend-mysql.
then restart pc.

Actual Results:  
result:
akonadi fails to start after system reboot.
this happens because ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc file only contains QMYSQL driver section and [General] section still points to QMYSQL, 


Expected Results:  
expected:
akonadi starts fine autoselecting first driver available (QSQLITE in this case).
[QSQLITE] section with default values is added to akonadiserverrc file,
and the driver specified in [General] section is automatically changed to QSQLITE.


i reported initially this feature request to debian but they said upstream should work on this instead

Comment 1 Daniel Vrátil 2013-08-28 14:20:21 UTC

The backend can be configured in System Settings -> Akonadi Configuration -> Akonadi Server Configuration.

Akonadi just tries to use whatever is configured. To switch to another backend, you have to change it in the KCM.