[arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

[An Nguyen]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the move to mariadb I have the following situation:
>
> I am not explicitely running mysqld so checking the status with systemctl
> shows it is inactive.
>
> However I am running KDE as my desktop.
>
> After doing the suggested install after ensuring that mysqld is stopped:
> pacman -S mariadb libmariadbclient mariadb-clients
>
> and accepting the install of these packages with removal of mysql
> equivalents, I then find that there is a private instance of mysql running
> by the KDE desktop:
>
> ps -eaf | egrep mysql
> mike       660   657  0 Mar23 ?        00:00:42 /usr/bin/mysqld
> --defaults-file=/home/mike/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf
> --datadir=/home/mike/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
> --socket=/home/mike/.local/share/akonadi/socket-home1/mysql.socket
> mike      9747   761  0 13:39 pts/3    00:00:00 egrep mysql
>
> So does any expert know whether a mysql_upgrade is necessary for KDE and if
> so how does one go about doing that upgrade?
>
Akonadi is using MySQL. You can disable Akonadi (personally I found it useless).

$ nano .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc
StartServer=false

Regards.
An.

> Thanks.
>
> --
> mike c



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