<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Dear digikam team,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Here is the error I get using digitkam 8.5.0 at startup:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">————————————————————————————————————</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">An error occurred during the internal server start.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Details: Could not start database initializer.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Executable: /Applications/digiKam.org/</span><a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">bin/mariadb-install-db</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam.org/</span><a href="http://digikam.app/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digikam.app/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf, --basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/</span><a href="http://digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">, --datadir=/Users/chief/Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Process error: Unknown error</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Please check the database settings in this dialog.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">————————————————————————————————————</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">I then successively installing mariadb 11.7.2 with my admin account (chief), and here is the log:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Your MariaDB connection id is 75</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Server version: 11.7.2-MariaDB Homebrew</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">MariaDB [(none)]> quit</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Bye</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">chief@192 ~ % MySQL.server start</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Starting MariaDB</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">/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</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Logging to '/opt/homebrew/var/mysql/192.168.0.109.err'.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">SUCCESS!  chief@192 ~ % 250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from /opt/homebrew/var/mysql</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">chief@192 ~ %</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">————————————————————————————————————</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">I then downloaded digikam 8.6.0, and here is the error I get:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">————————————————————————————————————</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">An error occurred during the internal server start.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Details: Could not start database initializer.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Executable: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/scripts/mariadb-install-db</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/</span><a href="http://digikam-8.6.org/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digiKam-8.6.org/</a><a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">, --basedir= Applications/digiKam.org/</span><a href="http://digikam.app/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px" target="_blank">digikam.app/</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">Process error: Unknown error</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:24px">————————————————————————————————————</span><br></div>
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