Daniel's solution in Comment #9 solved the issue for me when I today upgraded from Kubuntu 13.10 to 14.04.
As of April 6th, the akonadi-server package 1.12.0-0ubuntu1 still triggered the exact GID issue as was reported in comment #8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290717 Title: akonadi 1.11.80 fails to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/akonadi/+bug/1290717/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs