Hi Stew, > This one's odd. One the rs6000 it runs fine. On the powerbook the > permissions were apparently wrong on the mysql data files. Doing: > > chown mysql /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* > > Allows it to run now. > > The were owned by root, rather than mysql. > > Perhaps some sequence of updates that didn't happen quite as expected? > > uid for mysql on the bad system is: > > [root@powerbook root]# grep mysql /etc/passwd > mysql:x:75:75:system user for MySQL:/var/lib/lib/mysql:/bin/bash > > On the good system: > > [root@rs6000 root]# grep mysql /etc/passwd > mysql:x:415:415:MySQL server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash > > Comment is also different.
Yep, that fixed it on my PowerBook. Here's what it says now: [root@localhost phil8]# grep mysql /etc/passwd mysql:x:70:70:system user for MySQL:/var/lib/lib/mysql:/bin/bash Thanks a lot. KDE RC3 is downloading now! Bye, Phil
