On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:06:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:06:43 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got > > > similar > > > results. I did notice that an error notice came up about being unable to > > > store > > > a message received via POP3, which is my main incoming source. I can't > > > quote > > > exactly because the notice disappeared too soon. > > > > > > Back to 10.3.16 for now. > > > > Just to confirm, when you say upgrade you mean something like; > > emerge -u mariadb > > systemctl restart mariadb > > mysql_upgrade -u root -p > > Akonadi runs an instance of mariadb for its own use, without reference to > what else might be running on the machine. > > I've never had to run mysql_upgrade before, and I can't find a way to do it > manually because of this in .local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf: > > # Do not listen for TCP/IP connections at all > skip_networking > > Maybe I could comment that out temporarily, but I don't know what else might > be affected. Otherwise it looks like creating a new user for myself and > importing the message archive.
Well, I tried that but when I started kmail to set it up again, it crashed after telling me it had failed to get a lock. On what, it didn't say. -- Regards, Peter.
