<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;"><br><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Fred</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 9, 2025, at 15:15, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Please create a debug log from the start in the terminal, as described here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">for macOS:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#macos-host" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#macos-host</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Maik</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 06:23:22 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Fred<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Engst:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dear digikam team,<br>I have just purchased a Mac Mini M4 Pro and download all file that are<br>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/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/<br><<a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/">http://digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/</a>> bin/mariadb-install-db<br>Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/<a href="http://digikam.org/digikam.app/">digiKam.org/digikam.app/</a><br><<a href="http://digikam.app/">http://digikam.app/</a>>Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf,<br>--basedir=/ Applications/<a href="http://digikam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/">digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/</a><br><<a href="http://digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/">http://digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/</a>>,<br>--datadir=/Users/chief/Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data Process error:<br>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),<br>and here is the log:<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>-------------------- Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or<br>\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<br>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<br>name. It will be removed in a future release, use 'mariadbd-safe' instead<br>250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Logging to<br>'/opt/homebrew/var/mysql/192.168.0.109.err'. SUCCESS! chief@192 ~ % 250308<br>08:34:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from<br>/opt/homebrew/var/mysql chief@192 ~ %<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><br><<a href="http://digikam-8.6.org/">http://digikam-8.6.org/</a>>digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/my<br>sql-global.conf<br><<a href="http://digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf">http://digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf</a>>,<br>--basedir= Applications/<a href="http://digikam.org/digikam.app/">digiKam.org/digikam.app/</a><<a href="http://digikam.app/">http://digikam.app/</a>><br>Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/<br>Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data<br>Process error: Unknown error<br>————————————————————————————————————</blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>