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From: "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: akonadi-server upgrade desaster
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:54:45
Message-Id: m6uf8s$h6l$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi-server upgrade desaster by Mick
1 Hi,
2
3 Mick wrote:
4
5 > On Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 19:13:03 Jörg Schaible wrote:
6 >> Hi folks,
7 >>
8 >> it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to
9 >> 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to
10 >> upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I drop
11 >> them all. All I can do is to downgrade to 1.11.0 again and restore the DB
12 >> schema from a backup.
13
14 [snip]
15
16 >> So, what now? I am out of ideas ...
17 >>
18 >> - Jörg
19 >
20 >
21 > I'm sure I've seen a bug reported in KDE about it when I suffered some
22 > similar error, but can't find the link just now.
23 >
24 > You may want to dump the database so that you have a back up and convert
25 > it from MyISAM to InnoDB before you try to update akonadi.
26
27 Actually I already tried that, but it failed again. I replaced all
28 occurrences of MyISAM with InnoDB in them dumb file, dropped the DB and
29 tried to restore it, but again with strange failures that the table allready
30 existed. Something is weird with the InnoDB part of MySQL, but I dunno what.
31
32 - Jörg