database connection lost after update

[Gilles Caulier]

Le dim. 2 août 2026 à 15:59, <digikam_user.login at mobius.unbox.at> a écrit :
>
> I updated DK three das ago. At the first start I got a message, that the
> conversion of my database failed. digikam opened the configuration panel
> for database-connection....
>
> When I launch digikam in zsh I get this:
>
>
> ~ % /Applications/digikam.org/digikam.app/contents/MacOS/digikam
> qt.svg: QSvgHandler: Image filename is empty
> qt.svg: QSvgHandler: Image filename is empty
> qt.qpa.fonts: Populating font family aliases took 124 ms. Replace uses
> of missing font family "Bitstream Vera Sans" with one that exists to
> avoid this cost.
> digikam.coredb: Core database: cannot process schema initialization
>
>
> digikam is installed on MacOS Tahoe 26.5.2, my collection is on an QNAP
> TS431 with mariadb 5.5.57.
>
> I assume, mariadb is too old....? Is that right?

yes libmariadb used by Qt6::Mysql module is the 10.11.x under macOS. I
tried olver version in the pass (Macports provides plenty of version
of MariaDB) but older one do not compile with Qt6).

Best regards

Gilles Caulier