[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ASpace database issues

Matthew Adair mladair at umich.edu
Thu Jan 19 09:07:45 EST 2023


Indeed, university IT updated our MySQL server from 5.x to 8.x. But this
was back in early November. Everything had been working fine since then.

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*Matt Adair*
Archivist for Digital Imaging and Infrastructure


Bentley Historical Library
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 3:18 PM Tom Hanstra <hanstra at nd.edu> wrote:

> Is there any way that your version of MySQL got upgraded?  I see this in
> the MySQL documentation:
>
> https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8.html
>
> which indicates that utf8mb3 is deprecated after Mysql 8.0.28.
>
> I don't have any experience to say that this is where the problem is. I
> was just looking around because I don't want to end up in a similar
> situation.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 2:23 PM Matthew Adair <mladair at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Version 2.5.2 of ASpace.  Version 8.0.30 of MySQL
>>
>> We get the following error in the log file:
>> "The following MySQL database tables are not set to use UTF-8 for their
>> character encoding:"
>> and then it lists all of the database tables, and fails with an unable to
>> connect to database error
>>
>> Encoding on the database and all of the tables are utf8mb3_general_ci
>>
>> This problem seems to have just cropped up and there have been no
>> changes that I am aware of.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> -Matt
>>
>> ----
>> *Matt Adair*
>> Archivist for Digital Imaging and Infrastructure
>>
>>
>> Bentley Historical Library
>> 1150 Beal Avenue
>> Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113
>> 734-647-3537
>> http://bentley.umich.edu
>> @UmichBentley
>>
>> *The Bentley Historical Library acknowledges that coerced cessions of
>> land by the Anishnaabeg and Wyandot made the University of Michigan
>> possible, and we seek to reaffirm the ancestral and contemporary ties of
>> these peoples to the lands where the University now stands.*
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> *Tom Hanstra*
> *Sr. Systems Administrator*
> hanstra at nd.edu
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