Akonadi can't start

Akonadi pops up a window upon startup and then complains in a window when it can't start. Attached is the log the window suggested I save, below are my investigations from trying to run it manually.

I've read the KDE Akonadi UserBase article (http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi) but this does not seem to be any of those problems, or at the very least I can't tell. The process seems to die with a whole bunch of these:

[akonadiserver] Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
[akonadiserver] executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi"
[akonadiserver] arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/riedel/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/riedel/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/riedel/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket")
[akonadiserver] stdout: ""
[akonadiserver] stderr: "091025 20:53:25 [Warning] The syntax '--log_slow_queries' is deprecated and will be removed in MySQL 7.0. Please use '--slow_query_log'/'--slow_query_log_file' instead.
[akonadiserver] 091025 20:53:25 [ERROR] Error message file '/usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys' had only 480 error messages,
[akonadiserver] but it should contain at least 637 error messages.
[akonadiserver] Check that the above file is the right version for this program!
[akonadiserver] "
[akonadiserver] exit code: 1
[akonadiserver] process error: "Process operation timed out"
[akonadiserver] "[
[akonadiserver] 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x39) [0x40b1a9]
[akonadiserver] 1: akonadiserver [0x40b6f2]
[akonadiserver] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f5734528530]
[akonadiserver] 3: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7f57345284b5]
[akonadiserver] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x180) [0x7f573452bf50]
[akonadiserver] 5: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x74) [0x7f57354b7864]
[akonadiserver] 6: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xa8) [0x40c2a8]
[akonadiserver] 7: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x6e) [0x7f5735542b5e]
[akonadiserver] 8: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 [0x7f5735550909]
[akonadiserver] 9: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x68) [0x7f5735551938]
[akonadiserver] 10: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x45) [0x406dc5]
[akonadiserver] 11: /usr/lib/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0x18bd) [0x7f5735b073fd]
[akonadiserver] 12: /usr/lib/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0x69) [0x7f5735b095f9]
[akonadiserver] 13: /usr/lib/libakonadiprivate.so.1(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x4a) [0x7f5735b0a82a]
[akonadiserver] 14: akonadiserver(main+0x3f1) [0x4062d1]
[akonadiserver] 15: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f5734513abd]
[akonadiserver] 16: akonadiserver [0x405de9]
[akonadiserver] ]
[akonadiserver] "
ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error)
"akonadiserver" crashed too often and will not be restarted!

The only thing I can easily spot is that there IS no /home/riedel/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket but the rest exists.

Perhaps the Kubuntu Karmic mysql database is not the right version?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 25 20:50:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: akonadi-server 1.2.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: akonadi
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4350): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed