Re: [gentoo-amd64] mysql update to 5.0.25-r1 and amarok-1.4.3-r1

[Martins Steinbergs <mar@ml.lv>]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 14:40, Paul Stear wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 08:29, Paul Stear wrote:
> > Hello all.
> > Yesterday I did my usual update world and noticed that mysql was to be
> > upgraded to version 5.  I restarted mysql and ran revdep-update which
> > rebuilt a few applications including amarok.  All went well with no
> > errors but when I ran amarok it was obvious that things were not quite
> > right. When I fired amarok up it started to rebuild the database (this
> > took an age), when it had finished I noticed that all of the score
> > information was missing. I played some songs and thought that I would
> > check to see if the new scores were saved.  So I closed down and
> > restarted amarok, when the playlist appeared no scores had been saved and
> > amarok was again building the database.
> >
> > Question.
> > Should I have done something after the world upgrades?
> > How can I get back all of my score information for all songs?
> > Has anybody had this problem, what do I do to solve it?
>
> Sorry to reply to my own post but I am just so frustrated.  I have had
> amarok running for 4 hrs now and it keeps updating the database. i.e. as
> soon as it has finished updating it starts again. This is with no changed
> to the collection except the score as a result of playing.  Also on the
> sidebar it says "If you would like to see contextual information about this
> track, you should add it to your collection"
> But it's updated at least 5 times.
>
> It's almost as if the amarok database in mysql is not getting writen to,
> but I don't appear to have any errors.
>
> Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp please
> Thanks for any replies Paul
>
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I had the same problem but with mysql-5.0.26-r1 I dont remember all steps but 
for some reason i set db master user and password in amarok, not the 
amarok_db user and password, i have all score back.

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