Obstacle with akonadi / mysql and InnoDB support

[Dennis Veatch]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 7:13:54 am Bernd Kosmahl wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I run into an issue with akonadi on kde4. I dislike akonadi but well, this
> is how things go today on kde. akonadi never started correctly and the
> eyecandy window only told me about akonadi not beeing connected to dbus.
> That means more or less that it couldn't start correctly but doesn't know
> why. Since more and more apps try to start akonadi and jam my box for some
> time eeeeeverytime I started digging into it.
>
> Starting akonadi from a terminal gave me the final clue:
>
> 090415 12:53:17 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable
> 'innodb_file_per_table=1'
>
> So mysql simply didn't understand innodb. Aaaand what to say: Yes, I
> disabled InnoDB support long long ago since I had no use for this on my
> box. Beeing sort of unhappy about akonadi not telling me this in it's
> eyecandy error reporter I recompiled mysql:
>
> mysql: Invoke mysqld via init.d automatically at boot ? [y]
> mysql: Install client only?  [n]
> mysql: Enable InnoDB Support?  [n] y
> [...]
> mysql: Build embedded server (libmysqld), needed by KDE4 ?  [n] y
>
> Perhaps it makes sense to add this "needed by KDE4/Akonadi" to InnoDB
> Support as well.
>
> Who's maintainer for mysql? Or is it possible to query the mysql compile
> settings by akonadi automagically?
>

Thanks for pointing this out. Guess I have always said yes to innodb so was 
missed. The mysql CONFIGURE has been altered noting this and commited to 
moonbase.

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