[kde-freebsd] amarok-kde4 dies at start-up

[Jerry]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:45:59 +1100
Dima Panov <fluffy at fluffy.khv.ru> articulated:


> On Thursday 08 July 2010 07:57:18 Rusty Nejdl wrote:
> > 
> >  Rusty made some high-level suggestions, but would not follow-up
> > explaining, how to perform them. But even if/when the suggestions are
> > applied and work, the problem remains -- your port does not work "out of
> > the box"...
> > 
> > I may have missed an email you
> > sent out later asking for explanation so can you please resend that as I
> > don't recall anything nor any feedback from what I sent. 
> > 
> > I am running
> > this port out of the box without issue so we need to find what is
> > different in your environment. That means you need to do some lifting
> > here to help us find what is different in your system or we will not get
> > any further.  
> > 
> > What happened when you removed the file? For some
> > reason, your system was unable to read it. I don't recall seeing any
> > information to you about that file (size, permissions, type, etc) until
> > now. 
> 
> I can guess. Amarok 2.3 can't use now embedded library from fresh mysql51 to init own 
> internal database by innodb issue.
> 
> So only one way - revert to mysql50, build amarok, run it, configure it (no matter - 
> external or internal db), switch back to mysql51 and rebuild amarok. It will use previously 
> created database without any problems. 
> 
> All anger please route ro mysql developers, which broke compatibility :(

I fail to see why you are blaming the MySQL developers. For starters,
version '50' is far from current. The Amarok developers failed to
properly write/test their application to insure compatibility. It is
not MySQL's job to insure compatibility with other minor utilities.

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Jerry ✌
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