Hi, If any user/developer updates to MySQL 5.5 (for example Archlinux now has 5.5.9), there is a bug in the MySQL build which stops MYSQL_HOME from being treated as the directory to search for my.cnf. This leads to permissions errors and a crash.
BUG report: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59280 The fix is to set the environment variable DEFAULT_HOME_ENV=$KDEHOME/share/apps/amarok $ export DEFAULT_HOME_ENV=$KDEHOME/share/apps/amarok To developers: This patch should fix it. In fact should we commit this to master so that we take care of any installations in the 5.5 range from the next release onwards? diff --git a/src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/mysqlecollection/MySqlEmbeddedStorage.cpp b/src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/mysqlecollection/MySqlEmbeddedStorage.cpp index 258675a..f8b64b8 100644 --- a/src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/mysqlecollection/MySqlEmbeddedStorage.cpp +++ b/src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/mysqlecollection/MySqlEmbeddedStorage.cpp @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ MySqlEmbeddedStorage::MySqlEmbeddedStorage( const QString &storageLocation ) } setenv( "MYSQL_HOME", storagePath.toAscii().data(), 1 ); + setenv( "DEFAULT_HOME_ENV", storagePath.toAscii().data(), 1 ); char *args[] = { "amarok" }; if( mysql_library_init( 1 , args, 0 ) != 0 ) { I hope this saves somebody else a few hours. Best, Nikhil _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
