Sorry, didn't see you already had a mysql user.
David has a better english than mine:
It looks like your MySQL server process is hitting a problem when
it tries to change its user id to that of the user 'mysql'.
There are two possible reasons for this:
1. You're starting the server process as a user who isn't 'root',
so the user doesn't have the necessary privilege to change
the UID of the server process.
-- OR --
2. You *are* starting the server process as 'root', but your
system doesn't have a user called 'mysql', so the process
is trying, and failing, change its UID to a user that
doesn't exist.
Try "finger mysql" to see whether you actually have a user named
'mysql'.
Thinking about it, there are other possibilities, assuming that
you *do* have a user named 'mysql'.
3. The 'mysql' user doesn't have a home directory, or for some
reason that user doesn't have write-access to its home directory.
4. The 'mysql' user doesn't have the necessary access privileges
to /path/to/mysql and all of its sub-directories.
source
http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.java.databases/messages/
57463.html
_____________________________
Steve Poirier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Santhanam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: August 24, 2004 8:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MySQL with Intel Compiler
>
> Dear Friends,
> We want to use MySQL compiled with Intel Compiler to get
> superior performance. Our server is a rack mounted HP DL 380
> server with Redhat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0.
> We have used
> mysql-standard-4.1.3-beta-pc-linux-i686-icc.tar.gz. But we
> are getting the following error :
> -----------------------------------
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
> --force Installing all prepared tables Fatal error: Can't
> change to run as user 'mysql' ; Please check that the user exists!
> 040824 17:29:49 Aborting
>
> 040824 17:29:49 ./bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
>
> -----------------------------------
> For more details(Full text of Error Message), please see the
> attachment.
>
> But mysql user & group is existing.
> Please kindly help me.
> Thanks in Advance
> With Regards
> Santhanam
>
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