There must be a bug here somewhere.
I have just made three attempts to reinstall mysql, one from rpm, two
from tarball. This is a Redhat6.1 system with 160meg of ram and mysql
once ran on it, until I gave it an incorrect shutdown command.
(It should not break so easily.)
User and group "mysql" already exist, so I just chown & chgrp the
contents after compiling. This time, I finally got it running, only
after copying the old mysql/bin db files to mysql/var.
(scripts/mysql_install_db failed to do so, possibly because "scripts"
is no longer in the same directory level. Perhaps I untarred the
wrong place, but the directions did not seem to tell me where I
should.) Once running, mysql absolutely refuses to let me set the
root password. It tries to connect through a mysql.sock file in
/var/lib/mysql.
HELLO???? Did mysql fail to detect the system installed on?
My Redhat7 server uses /var/lib/mysql for all the mysql files. 6.x
and earlier versions have the files in /usr/local/mysql. Why is mysql
even looking in /var/lib??
I remembered mention of similar problems on the list, so I did a
search on the website, but I am turning up messages three years old,
with commands like "UPDATE" that are not being recognized.
Is there a way to fix this?
Do I have to scratch again and start over in the /var/lib directory?
I emailed the error files from my last attempt, but it disappeared.
This time, the error file just filled with help messages.
Do I have to reinstall Redhat with v.7 to make the current mysql
release work?
Do I have to scratch and use the previous version to make it work on
v.6.1?
Please help. I'm stumped and frustrated.
John Jensen
520 Goshawk Court
Bakersfield, CA 93309
661-833-2858
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