Hi, I have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled a number of times but keep running in to this bizarre problem. If anyone else has experienced it and knows of a workaround, I'd really appreciate hearing of it. I am running an Intel RedHat 6 box and installing from the source tarball. I receive no errors at any point during the configuration, building or installation (although there are some warnings as expected in the documentation). I install the databases without error and start the daemon - all seems well. But both mysqlshow and SHOW DATABASES return a recordset with six blank rows: $ bin/mysqlshow -u root -p Enter password: +-----------+ | Databases | +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------+ I can DROP DATABASE test; - which reduces the list to five. The mysql database itself appears to have no tables: $ bin/mysqlshow -u root -p mysql Database: mysql +--------+ | Tables | +--------+ +--------+ If I remove the mysql directory from the data directory, there are then only four records returned. If I remove the data directory altogether (/usr/local/mysql/var), the set is empty as expected. I am at a loss to explain this one - especially given that I've sucessfully installed mysql on some very similar boxes, with identical methods, in the past. Again, all help would be greatly valued. For reference, my exact behaviour from downloading the tarball was: $ tar xzf mysql-3.23.31.tar.gz $ chown -R alexi.users mysql-3.23.31 $ chmod 700 mysql-3.23.31 $ cd mysql-3.23.31 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql $ make $ su # groupadd mysqld # useradd -g mysqld -d /usr/local/mysql -c "MySQL Daemon" mysqld # make install # scripts/mysql_install_db # chown -R mysqld.mysqld /usr/local/mysql # cd /usr/local/mysql # bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysqld & # exit Thanks, /\lexi /\\argo --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
