[digiKam-users] What are correct permissions for /var/lib/mysql?

[Maik Qualmann]

What's wrong, digiKam does not create anything in "/var/lib/mysql/". The 
database folder is either the image collection folder or a folder in which the 
user has all rights (home folder). Everything else digikam created 
$HOME/.local/share/digikam.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2019, 20:00:47 CET schrieb Steven Gaffagan:
> Greetings,
> 
> Installed digikam in Arch Linux. Set up mariadb and got it running. I am
> trying to use the internal server option for mariadb. However, when I
> launched digikam I received:
> 
> An error occurred during the internal server start.
> Details: Cannot create directory /var/lib/mysql/.mysql.digikam/db_data
> 
> I went back and created that: sudo /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
> --datadir='/var/lib/mysql/.mysql.digikam/db_data'
> 
> Still received same error message.
> 
> The owner and group of the file were mysql. Changing permissions: sudo
> chmod 777 -R mysql/ allowed digikam to launch without error.
> 
> I searched the last 4 months of the mailing list and didn't see a post
> on permissions. Also, do I need to set up a user in mariadb that matches
> the user name accessing digikam? Apologies if this has been asked a
> bunch of times already.
> 
> Please advise & thank you.