Tim Johnson wrote:
Hi:
I have version 4.0.20 on slack 10.0.
Mysqld fails on startup.
From mysqld is the following:
50821 11:10:44 mysqld started
050821 11:10:44 Warning: Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/linus.lower-test
^G/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysql/' (Errcode: 13)
050821 11:10:44 Aborting
050821 11:10:44 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete
050821 11:10:44 mysqld ended
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I'm not much of a linux system guru, and I am guessing from
the messages above that I have a problem with permissions.
Can anyone point me to the solution?
Many Thanks
tim
You can get more info about an error message with perror:
~: perror 13
OS error code 13: Permission denied
As you guessed, a permissions error. Apparently, the user running mysqld
(usually user mysql) does not have access rights to /var/lib/mysql/. Most
likely, user mysql is not set as the owner of /var/lib/mysql/, in which case
you need to
chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/
as root.
Michael
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