[digiKam-users] DB migration error: "Error while creating the database schema."

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Tomer,

The digiKam for macOS version 7.2.0 release candidate is near of final
release. The step between 7.1.0 and 7.2.0 for Mac support is huge and
so far better.

I use myself a MacBook pro 2015 at home plus a few VM with macOS
bigSur for the continuous Deployment...

Best

Gilles Caulier


If you have already have tagged your collection, just make a database
backup before to update.

Le lun. 8 févr. 2021 à 02:59, Tomer Altman <me at tomeraltman.net> a écrit :
>
> Hi Maik,
>
> Thank you very much for your fast reply.
>
> At the time that I installed Digikam a few weeks ago, 7.1.0 was the release version. The 7.2.0 version on the site that you linked is described as:
>
> ```
> IMPORTANT: these bundle files, are built weekly and can be used to test new features quickly.
>            Do not use these versions in production, unless you know what are you doing.
> ```
>
> I guess after spending a few weeks merging in 50k+ media files, I'm a bit nervous about using a bleeding edge version. In your opinion, is the 7.2.0 release candidate stable enough for neophyte end-users like myself?
>
> Thanks for pointing out the debugging settings. I'll try that tomorrow and post the results to the list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~Tomer
>
>
> On 2/7/21 10:53 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>
> First of all, digiKam-7.1.0 is too old for MacOS. Use the current release
> candidate digiKam-7.2.0-RC from here:
>
> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>
> Then we need the debug output from the terminal as described here, don't
> forget to set the debug environment variable:
>
> https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
>
> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 8. Februar 2021, 06:10:20 CET schrieb Tomer Altman:
>
> To the digikam community:
>
> I hope that this finds you well. I am a new digikam user and have been
> very happy using it to merge several large sets of photos & videos into
> a single collection. Until now I have used the SQLite DB back-end, but
> my intention has been to move on to using the external MySQL server DB
> back-end to allow me to edit the collection from multiple machines.
>
> I am using Digikam v.7.1.0
> (commits.kde.org/digikam/d52927ebc98ee24c9fc3a3a34f527d4d21b09fb3) on
> Mac OS X v10.13.6. I have been using the following documentation to
> guide me:
>
> https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html
>
> I installed MySQL v8.0, and executed the following SQL commands to set
> up the database (see below). Note that I had to go beyond the
> documentation and add the "WITH mysql_native_password" clause in order
> for MySQL to use a password plugin that is supported by Digikam (at
> least the Mac version).
>
> When using the DB migration tool, I am able to connect to the MySQL
> server, but when I try to initiate the migration, I get a pop up window
> saying "Error while creating the database schema".
>
> I'm not sure what the error is. I do see on the server side that the
> digikam_core database does get populated with tables. The digikam
> database does not.
>
> I have some DBA experience, so I'm sure that I could work past any
> mis-configuration issues on the MySQL side, if only I could see a more
> detailed error message. Any suggestions on how to get past this
> uninformative error message would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~Tomer
>
> ---
>
> CREATE USER 'digikam'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY
> <password>;
>
> GRANT ALL ON *.* to 'digikam'@'%';
>
> CREATE DATABASE digikam;
>
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON digikam.* TO 'digikam'@'%';
>
> CREATE DATABASE digikam_core;
>
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON digikam_core.* TO 'digikam'@'%';
>
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
>
>
>
>
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