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[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 March 2010 12:49:20 Will Stephenson wrote:
> No, that's not the issue.  If you google for the mysql output before it
> quits  "Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find
> out how to run mysqld as root!" there are a lot of other reports.  I'll
> read them after lunch and see what they mean - they can't all be running
> as root ;).

So all the other reports with this error message I looked at yesterday were 
indeed users running akonadi as root.  I don't know another reason why mysql 
would output this error message, so I'm going to look for ways it could be 
trying to run as root. In your serverstart log file Akonadi is trying to use a  
database in /home/constant112 so at least it has a user's $HOME environment.  
Is your mysqld binary setuid root?

Also, I'm adding a 'not root' test to the Akonadi self test dialog to make it 
clear to others that running as root is strongly discouraged.

Will
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