Hello lists, Yesterday's routine update took mariadb from 10.3.16 to 10.4.6. When I came to look at my emails today, kmail couldn't do anything. To start with, it was stuck in an endless, looping attempt to display the current email. Then it couldn't archive the inbox, then it couldn't import from an archive. I couldn't even move an email from one folder to another. Akonadictl fsck and vacuum seemed to run but didn't improve anything. Even reverting to an old copy of my home directory didn't help.
Eventually I noticed that mariadb had been upgraded, so I masked the latest version and reverted to the older one. Lo! and Behold! Kmail sprang back into life. I've sent this to both the relevant lists; I hope that's not a heinous transgression. -- Gentoo testing system gcc 9.1.0, sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 5.1.12 QT 5.12.3, KDE frameworks 5.59.0, KDE plasma 5.16.1 KDE apps 19.04.2oo incl KMail 19.04.1-r1 (5.11.2), akonadi 19.04.0 x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.0.0 dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl 18.20.684755