(Solved) Upgrade from MySQL to MariaDB breaks Akonadi

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Monday, 14 August 2017 07:23:27 CEST Volker Wysk wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> When you upgrade MySQL to MariaDB, Akonadi won't start any longer. This
> happens on Kubuntu, but it could also happen somewhere else.
> 
> The package mariadb-server needs to be installed for MariaDB (again, on
> (K)Ubuntu).
> 
> This replaces MySQL (mysql-server-core-5.7 and mysql-client-core-5.7). After
> that, Akonadi won't start any longer. "aconadictl start" outputs a lot of
> messages.

Do you have any of those messages so that we can try to fix the problem?

> 
> The problem can be repaired by doing this, after the installation of
> MariaDB:
> 
> akonadictl stop
> rm -r ~/.local/share/akonadi
> akonadictl start



> 
> Bye,
> Volker


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