Package: akonadi-backend-mysql Version: 4:17.08.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, akonadi currently tries to create a /usr/my.cnf file and generally fails to create databases correctly. The error message is
$ WARNING: Could not write to config file /usr/my.cnf: Permission denied ... /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1049: Unknown database 'akonadi' when selecting the database from akonadictl restart. Seems related: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=71600 with kind regards, Alex -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages akonadi-backend-mysql depends on: ii libqt5sql5-mysql 5.9.2+dfsg-7 ii mysql-client-core-5.6 [virtual-mysql-client-core] 5.6.30-1 ii mysql-server-core-5.6 [virtual-mysql-server-core] 5.6.30-1 Versions of packages akonadi-backend-mysql recommends: ii akonadi-server 4:17.08.3-2 akonadi-backend-mysql suggests no packages. -- no debconf information