The installed README.gentoo.bz2 suggests three steps for each user to perform to ensure that the local mariadb database is sane. The first two work like they are written, but the third is wrong. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install dev-db/mariadb-10.6.5-r1 2. Install kde-apps/kdepim-meta-21.12.2 3. Perform third step (mysql_upgrade) from /usr/share/doc/akonadi-21.12.2/README.gentoo.bz2 Actual Results: ~ $ mysql_upgrade -S /run/user/$(id -u)/akonadi/default/mysql.socket \ --defaults-file=~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf mysql_upgrade: unknown variable 'defaults-file=~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf' Expected Results: Phase 1/7: Checking and upgrading mysql database Processing databases mysql (...) Phase 2/7: Installing used storage engines... Skipped Phase 3/7: Fixing views mysql.user OK (...) Phase 4/7: Running 'mysql_fix_privilege_tables' Phase 5/7: Fixing table and database names Phase 6/7: Checking and upgrading tables Processing databases akonadi (...) akonadi.tagtypetable OK information_schema performance_schema sys sys.sys_config OK test Phase 7/7: Running 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES' OK The command line is wrong, at least for mariadb-10.6.5 It currently reads: mysql_upgrade -S /run/user/$(id -u)/akonadi/default/mysql.socket \ --defaults-file=~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf It should read: mysql_upgrade --defaults-file=~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf \ -S /run/user/$(id -u)/akonadi/mysql.socket These two errors are in the line: 1. The argument --defaults-file is now listed as "specified before remaining options" in the mysql_ugrade help text, and has to come first. 2. The socket is not in /run/user/$(id -u)/akonadi/default/mysql.socket but in /run/user/$(id -u)/akonadi/mysql.socket Note: The other two steps in the README use the correct socket path
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 792741 ***
