Re: [gentoo-user] Massive kmail breakage with mariadb-10.4.6

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:36:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:33:29 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:07:46 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Yesterday's routine update took mariadb from 10.3.16 to 10.4.6. When I
> > > came to look at my emails today, kmail couldn't do anything. To start
> > > with, it was stuck in an endless, looping attempt to display the
> > > current email. Then it couldn't archive the inbox, then it couldn't
> > > import from an archive. I couldn't even move an email from one folder
> > > to another. Akonadictl fsck and vacuum seemed to run but didn't improve
> > > anything. Even reverting to an old copy of my home directory didn't
> > > help.
> >
> > Did you restart msyqld and run mysql_upgrade?
>
> I ran lib_users -s after the update yesterday, found a lot of old libs in
> use so rebooted. I also rebooted more than once this morning.
>
> To answer Mick, I tried akonadi fsck and vacuum; they reported success but
> didn't affect what I was seeing in kmail.

I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got similar 
results. I did notice that an error notice came up about being unable to store 
a message received via POP3, which is my main incoming source. I can't quote 
exactly because the notice disappeared too soon.

Back to 10.3.16 for now.

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Regards,
Peter.