On Saturday, 25 December 2021 17:18:56 GMT Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Friday 2021-12-24 13:32:42 Graham Dicker wrote: > > Thanks for the tip Phil, which I will bear in mind if I ever get Bacula > > working again as it should (and has done for the past 10 years or more). > > Up until about a year ago my workstation would boot itself up when > > woken by the motherboard timer and Bacula would start running as a > > service and do the necessary backups. The first thing that stopped > > working was the service. There seemed to be some problem with timing > > between Bacula and mysql. I got around it by dropping the service and > > using crontab to start mysql and Bacula in that order. Then a few > > months ago that started failing due to some disagreement between > > akonadi, Bacula and mysql as to where the mysql socket was and which > > port was to be used. I solved that by total surrender to akonadi and > > told Bacula to use the socket created by akonadi. Now I don't know > > what's gone wrong. KMail behaviour has also changed in the last few day > > also; I have to click on it twice to make it start up. I think OpenSuse > > 15.3 must have had some dodgy updates recently. > > That would explain why your database disappeared. It seems that you > have been using mysql instance dedicated to akonadi service. > > I don't know how things are setup on Suse but on Centos/RHEL, akonadi > service would by default bring up its own mysql instance, with its own > mysql config file and data directory. It would also use its own socket. > > I wouldn't use that mysql instance for anything else but akonadi. > > I strongly suggest that you configure and bring up normal mysql service > which can safely be used for bacula and other services as you se fit. > If configured correctly you will not lose your databases any more. > > The timing between mysql and Bacula you have mentioned is likely caused > by the akonadi which starts its mysql instance and that happens only > during the graphical login or even after you start the "kontact" or > similar application such as "kmail". > > > Regards!
Thank you Josip this is very helpful. I have restored everything I had tinkered with back to what it was, that is: Removed specification of port and socket from /etc/my.cnf Removed specification of port and socket from bacula-dir.conf both of this were previously specifying the akonadi socket and port 3306 now './bacula' start from a console as root puts this message in the log: 26-Dec 09:40 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula". If I run mysql from a console as root then 'use bacula' succeeds and I can access the tables but if i try the same thing as a normal user I get: MariaDB [(none)]> use bacula; KMail/akonadi behaviour is still not normal. I have to click the Kmail icon, then the desktop, then KMail icon again to get it to start, and at least the first time of collecting my POP3 email takes a lot longer than usual. Graham
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