https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361485
--- Comment #2 from Luis Silva <lacsi...@gmail.com> --- The --verbose flag was not the appropriate one. Here is the true result of trying to start the mysqld instance by hand. The problem is clear, akonadi is not handling the update correctly and mysql.plugin is not either created or ignored. /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi --log-error-verbosity 3 --defaults-file=/home/luis/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf --datadir=/home/luis/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/tmp/akonadi-luis.kRcy3v/mysql.socket 2016-04-08T10:01:35.514463Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details). 2016-04-08T10:01:35.514918Z 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 5.7.11-0ubuntu5) starting as process 11593 ... 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518123Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin keyring_file reported: 'keyring_file initialization failure. Please check if the keyring_file_data points to readable keyring file or keyring file can be created in the specified location. The keyring_file will stay unusable until correct path to the keyring file gets provided' 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518707Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: PUNCH HOLE support available 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518720Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518725Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518730Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518737Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518741Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 2016-04-08T10:01:35.518953Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2016-04-08T10:01:35.519066Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions 2016-04-08T10:01:35.525746Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M 2016-04-08T10:01:35.535867Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2016-04-08T10:01:35.537356Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: If the mysqld execution user is authorized, page cleaner thread priority can be changed. See the man page of setpriority(). 2016-04-08T10:01:35.548783Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. 2016-04-08T10:01:35.613938Z 0 [Warning] InnoDB: Resizing redo log from 2*4096 to 2*3072 pages, LSN=1210920 2016-04-08T10:01:35.824327Z 0 [Warning] InnoDB: Starting to delete and rewrite log files. 2016-04-08T10:01:35.873786Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile101 size to 48 MB 2016-04-08T10:01:36.525040Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 48 MB 2016-04-08T10:01:37.292231Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Renaming log file ./ib_logfile101 to ./ib_logfile0 2016-04-08T10:01:37.292473Z 0 [Warning] InnoDB: New log files created, LSN=1210920 2016-04-08T10:01:37.293068Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables 2016-04-08T10:01:37.293240Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ... 2016-04-08T10:01:37.503690Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB. 2016-04-08T10:01:37.506101Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 96 redo rollback segment(s) found. 96 redo rollback segment(s) are active. 2016-04-08T10:01:37.506136Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 32 non-redo rollback segment(s) are active. 2016-04-08T10:01:37.526904Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.11 started; log sequence number 1210911 2016-04-08T10:01:37.527275Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /home/luis/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_buffer_pool 2016-04-08T10:01:37.527517Z 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist 2016-04-08T10:01:37.527786Z 0 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528092Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 160408 11:01:37 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528105Z 0 [ERROR] unknown variable 'defaults-file=/home/luis/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528171Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528191Z 0 [Note] Binlog end 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528277Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'ngram' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528291Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'ARCHIVE' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528303Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'partition' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528314Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'BLACKHOLE' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528325Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_VIRTUAL' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528337Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528347Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528357Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528366Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528376Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FIELDS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528386Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528396Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_INDEXES' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528406Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528415Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_TABLES' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528425Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528434Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528444Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_CONFIG' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528453Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528463Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DELETED' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528473Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528483Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_METRICS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528492Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_TEMP_TABLE_INFO' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528501Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528511Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528520Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528530Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528539Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528549Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528558Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528567Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_RESET' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528577Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528587Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCK_WAITS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528596Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCKS' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528606Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_TRX' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528615Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'InnoDB' 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528689Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting. 2016-04-08T10:01:37.528871Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 2016-04-08T10:01:37.629231Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /home/luis/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_buffer_pool 2016-04-08T10:01:37.629594Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 160408 11:01:37 2016-04-08T10:01:39.404497Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1211423 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409221Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "ibtmp1" 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409252Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MEMORY' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409264Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409364Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MRG_MYISAM' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409376Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MyISAM' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409421Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'CSV' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409440Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'sha256_password' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409457Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'mysql_native_password' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409471Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'keyring_file' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.409893Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'binlog' 2016-04-08T10:01:39.410207Z 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.