On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 19:22 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Hi,

maybe someone has an idea how to solve http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12798. The proposed patch was added to mysql, reverted, re-added etc.. The current version is broken again.

The problem is that the mysql rc script just checks for any process called mysqld. But akonadi starts its own instance of mysql as user.

So if you use that rc script to start/stop mysql it woll kill akonadi's mysql and not just its own.

I have no idea why using the pid saved by mysql did not work for some people.

So, any ideas are welcome.

Pierre

I usually shutdown mysql using "mysqladmin shutdown". This requires a user account with shutdown rights. Debian installs such a user by default, though I don't use any packages and use the root account for that.