BUG: Telling me I "shouldn't have done" something, not even mentioned
in the manual, does not help me fix the problem.
BUG: Having to completely reinstall the operating system (Linux) in
order to repair problems with a mysql install. Or does someone
actually have any recommendations on this?
On 27 Feb 2001, at 11:51, Sean Conley wrote:
> It sounds like the problem is that you originally installed from RPM
> and later installed from source, or vice versa. RPMs often use a
> different file layout than source distributions, this is one reason
> why I always install software that I consider system critical from
> source, so that there are no unexpected results.
>
> As for the socket problem, look here:
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Command-line_options.html
>
> Specifically the --socket option which allows you to specify the path
> to the socket which mysql uses to communicate with the rest of the
> world. This option is also documented in the New Riders (Paul DuBois)
> MySQL book, which I have found very useful.
>
> Sean
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, John Jensen wrote:
>
> > 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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