Kmail doesn't start after latest paches

I have a serious problem since my last update yesterday. Kmail dosn’t start anymore. As soon, as I start it, akonadictl crashes, and in journalctl I can see, that mysql crashes together with akonadi. A rollback helps, but as soon, as I update my system the same error comes again

Known problem

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263153

And this one is on the forums: SOLVED: Akonadi blocked by Mariadb update

It may help you to use the temporary by-pass mentioned so you can install the other updates that are available.

You could lock the package maraidb untill the bug is fixed:

zypper ll

# | Name                                   | Type    | Repository | Comment
--+----------------------------------------+---------+------------+--------
1 | mariadb                                | package | (beliebig) | 
...

with Myrlyn or zypper al mariadb.

Or one could switch akonadi’s backend to sqllite …

akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite

See https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#How_do_I_switch_from_MySQL/PostgreSQL_to_SQLite?

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