On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:43:50 Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > Heya list > > After installing KDE 4.4, I ran into the problem that Akonadi would not > start. With the help of krop on #akonadi, I found the following > explanation: > > A patch fixing MySQL bug 45058 was committed to MySQL 5.1.43 and 5.5.1 > [1]. This was meant to address a race condition but also broke charset > handling somehow, making akonadiserver crash. > > Redhat have a patch that reverts this change [2]. Of course, this > reintroduces the race condition but at least it makes Akonadi work again. > > The Redhat patch is against MySQL 5.1.43. I successfully applied it to > MySQL 5.5.1 and am happy to report that Akonadi works for me as well now. > > Attached is a patch that you can drop into > /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server/files. Then, rebuild > databases/mysql-client55. The same file should work for MySQL 5.1 as well. > > Once Redhat have confirmed that this works for them (or a better patch > has been found), this should be pushed into FreeBSD ports. Otherwise, > anyone upgrading to KDE 4.4 with Akonadi 1.3.1 (and using an up-to-date > MySQL port) will run into problems with Akonadi not starting. > > - Bartosz > > [1] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=45058 > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566547#c11
By the way, have you contacted the MySQL port maintainer to see if this patch can go into the ports tree? _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information