Not able to start digikam on Mac Mini M4 Pro

[Maik Qualmann]

Please create a debug log from the start in the terminal, as described here 
for macOS:

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#macos-host

Maik

Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 06:23:22 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Fred 
Engst:
> Dear digikam team,
> 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.
> 
> Here is the error I get using digitkam 8.5.0 at startup:
> ————————————————————————————————————
> An error occurred during the internal server start.
> Details: Could not start database initializer.
> Executable: /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/
> <http://digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/> bin/mariadb-install-db
> Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/
> <http://digikam.app/>Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf,
> --basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/
> <http://digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/>,
> --datadir=/Users/chief/Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data Process error:
> Unknown error
> Please check the database settings in this dialog.
> ————————————————————————————————————
> 
> I then successively installing mariadb 11.7.2 with my admin account (chief),
> and here is the log:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------- Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or
> \g.
> Your MariaDB connection id is 75
> Server version: 11.7.2-MariaDB Homebrew
> 
> Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
> 
> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input
> statement.
> 
> MariaDB [(none)]> quit
> Bye
> chief at 192 ~ % MySQL.server start
> Starting MariaDB
> /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
> 250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Logging to
> '/opt/homebrew/var/mysql/192.168.0.109.err'. SUCCESS!  chief at 192 ~ % 250308
> 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from
> /opt/homebrew/var/mysql chief at 192 ~ %
> ————————————————————————————————————
> 
> 
> I then downloaded digikam 8.6.0, and here is the error I get:
> ————————————————————————————————————
> An error occurred during the internal server start.
> Details: Could not start database initializer.
> Executable: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/scripts/mariadb-install-db
> Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam-8.6.org/
> <http://digikam-8.6.org/>digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/my
> sql-global.conf
> <http://digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf>,
> --basedir= Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/ <http://digikam.app/>
> Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/
> Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data
> Process error: Unknown error
> ————————————————————————————————————