On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Nguyễn Châu An || An NGUYEN Linux Technician & FOSS Advocate ------- OpenPGP KeyID 2048R/8F77A48C Key Fingerprint 7652 B403 749F F173 227D 4865 FB71 EC95 8F77 A48C