[Kde-pim] akonadi won't connect to external mysql server

[Robin Atwood]

On Friday 22 May 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday, 2009-05-21, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 May 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Can you try with the username you specified in the Akonadi config?
> >
> > I used "root" in the akonadi config to make sure it was valid!
>
> Right, my mistake.
>
> > > If that works, try removing the "Host" setting from the config.
> > > Maybe the QtSQL driver attemps a TCP connection to the host rather than
> > > using the Unix socket.
> >
> > Removing the host setting makes no difference. :(
>
> Damn.
> Unfortunately I haven't used such a setup myself yet.
>
> Can you try to create a database called "akonadi" manually and then start
> Akonadi?

OK, that did it! I am not a DBA but I issued "CREATE DATABASE AKONADI" in 
mysql, restarted akonadi and everything leapt into life. So I guess the 
question is, why cannot akonadi create the database. I have lots of 
applications using my mysql server, so I am confident it is not the problem,

Cheers
-Robin
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