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Paul Stear posted on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:23:27 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I get the following errors when starting kmail / akonadi / mysql :- |
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> 110104 13:15:30 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 1429535 |
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> 110104 13:15:30 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table |
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> 'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them |
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> 110104 13:15:30 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table |
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> 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist |
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> 110104 13:15:30 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. |
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> How do I obtain/create time zone table and privlege tables? |
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> Thanks for any help |
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One way to cure the issue is to switch to an akonadi backend other than |
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MySQL. |
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If you take a look at the ebuilds for akonadi-server-1.3.1 and 1.4.1, |
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you'll note that Gentoo switched the backend preference order from mysql |
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preferred to sqlite preferred (it's based on the sqlite/postgres/mysql USE |
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flags, but the test favors mysql in 1.3.1 if that flag is on, sqlite in |
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1.4.1 if that flag is on). The reason for that is that the akonadi sqlite |
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driver took some time to mature, particularly the multi-threading aspects, |
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and with 1.3.1, the mysql driver was the best available. By 1.4.1 |
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however, the sqlite driver had matured and is now preferred as it's a |
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lighter install with less technical issues like the ones above, especially |
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for users not running mysql on their systems for other reasons. Do note |
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the warning in the 1.4.1 ebuild, however, about switching the driver in |
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your home dir config, ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc , as well, since |
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portage doesn't touch users' home dirs, only system dirs, and for existing |
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users the default will have been set in the user dir when akonadi was run. |
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Of course, akonadi-server-1.4.1 is ~arch, and you may want sqlite and qt- |
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sql (which means all qt4 packages installed, since they're version-locked |
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together), at least, as ~arch as well. FWIW, I'm running ~arch here, plus |
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the kde overlay since I use its sets (with portage-2.2.0_alphas) and often |
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install kde updates before they make it to the tree. I'm thus running |
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akonadi-server-1.4.1 and kde 4.5.4 (4.5.5 should be out about now but I've |
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not synced this week yet), except that the kdepim packages including kmail |
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are still 4.4.8, since kdepim 4.5 never came out of beta, upstream. IIRC |
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I upgraded to the sqlite backend drivers about the same time 4.5 came out, |
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and I've been MUCH happier with them than with the mysql backend, as mysql |
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may be great indeed as a high power database, but was apparently never |
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really designed to be run by ordinary users who don't particularly care |
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about its config, they just want it to work, thus, not designed for the |
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usage to which kde had been putting it. |
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If you prefer to stay with the mysql backend, perhaps because you don't |
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want to run ~arch... Google is your friend. =:^) Seriously, googling the |
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warning and error you posted gave me good results. Here's an article on |
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the timezone one I think I remember reading back when it first came out: |
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/144863/ |
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... And this thread on the arch forums looks useful for the other one (and |
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maybe both): |
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78358 |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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