<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear digikam team,<br>I have just purchased a Mac Mini M4 Pro and download all file that are needed for digikam, but I’m not able to start it.<br><br>Here is the error I get using digitkam 8.5.0 at startup:<br>————————————————————————————————————<br>An error occurred during the internal server start.<br>Details: Could not start database initializer.<br>Executable: /Applications/digiKam.org/<a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/">digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/</a><br>bin/mariadb-install-db<br>Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam.org/<a href="http://digikam.app/">digikam.app/</a>Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf, --basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/<a href="http://digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/">digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/</a>, --datadir=/Users/chief/Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data<br>Process error: Unknown error<br>Please check the database settings in this dialog.<br>————————————————————————————————————<br><br>I then successively installing mariadb 11.7.2 with my admin account (chief), and here is the log:<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.<br>Your MariaDB connection id is 75<br>Server version: 11.7.2-MariaDB Homebrew<br><br>Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.<br><br>Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.<br><br>MariaDB [(none)]> quit<br>Bye<br>chief@192 ~ % MySQL.server start<br>Starting MariaDB<br>/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/bin/mysqld_safe: Deprecated program name. It will be removed in a future release, use 'mariadbd-safe' instead<br>250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Logging to '/opt/homebrew/var/mysql/192.168.0.109.err'.<br>SUCCESS! chief@192 ~ % 250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from /opt/homebrew/var/mysql<br>chief@192 ~ %<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>————————————————————————————————————<br><br><br>I then downloaded digikam 8.6.0, and here is the error I get:<br>————————————————————————————————————<br>An error occurred during the internal server start.<br>Details: Could not start database initializer.<br>Executable: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/scripts/mariadb-install-db<br>Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/<a href="http://digikam-8.6.org/">digiKam-8.6.org/</a><a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf">digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf</a>, --basedir= Applications/digiKam.org/<a href="http://digikam.app/">digikam.app/</a><br>Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/<br>Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data<br>Process error: Unknown error<br>————————————————————————————————————</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>