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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2009-05-21, Robin Atwood wrote:
> If I start akonadi with the default private server, it starts OK. Since I
> already run mysql this is a waste of resources so I changed the config to
> use the external server. akonadiserverrc contains:
>
> [%General]
> Driver=QMYSQL
>
> [QMYSQL]
> Name=akonadi
> User=root
> Password=********
> Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"
> ServerPath=/usr/sbin/mysqld
> StartServer=false
> Host=localhost
>
> [Debug]
> Tracer=null
>
> But when I try to start akonadi I get:
>
> $ [akonadiserver] Unable to open database "Unknown database 'akonadi'
> QMYSQL: Unable to connect"

Can you connect with the mysql client using its --socket option?

> The test dialog shows akonadi is not registsred with dbus but dbus is
> running. Anyone any idea why the external server causes this problem?

It is not registered because it aborted startup after failing to connect to 
the database server.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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