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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2009-05-21, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2009, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2009-05-21, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Thanks for the prompt response. Is this what you mean?
>
> $ mysql -u root -p --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Can you try with the username you specified in the Akonadi config?

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.

Cheers,
Kevin

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

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