Not able to start digikam on Mac Mini M4 Pro

[Fred Engst]

Thanks Maik,
Here is the debug log, if I’m doing it right:


Fred

> On Mar 9, 2025, at 15:15, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.org/digikam.app/>
>> <http://digikam.app/>Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf,
>> --basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/ <http://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/>
>> <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.org/digikam.app/><http://digikam.app/>
>> Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/
>> Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data
>> Process error: Unknown error
>> ————————————————————————————————————

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