Fresh install of 5.1.41 on a brand new (Slackware 13 - 64 bit) machine. Installed from tar. Directory structure is: basedir=/usr/local/mysql and datadir=/storage/mysql/data. I am currently running as root. The permissions on the directories in /storage/mysql/data are 766 (I have double and triple checked this.) I have created the mysql data tables by running mysql_install_db... it seemed to complete without error:
r...@mysql3:/usr/local/mysql/scripts# ./mysql_install_db --datadir=/storage/mysql/data --basedir=/usr/local/mysql -uroot Installing MySQL system tables... OK Filling help tables... OK To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER ! To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h 10.10.10.31 password 'new-password' Alternatively you can run: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_secure_installation which will also give you the option of removing the test databases and anonymous user created by default. This is strongly recommended for production servers. See the manual for more instructions. You can start the MySQL daemon with: cd /usr/local/mysql ; /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe & You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl cd /usr/local/mysql/mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl Please report any problems with the /usr/local/mysql/scripts/mysqlbug script! The latest information about MySQL is available at http://www.mysql.com/ Support MySQL by buying support/licenses from http://shop.mysql.com/ I then ran /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe -uroot & which produced the following error report: 091211 13:19:18 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /storage/mysql/data 091211 13:19:18 [Warning] Ignoring user change to 'root' because the user was set to 'mysql' earlier on the command line 091211 13:19:18 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 091211 13:19:18 [Warning] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: ignoring option '--innodb-use-sys-malloc' due to invalid value 'ON' ^G/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13) 091211 13:19:18 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 091211 13:19:19 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name /storage/mysql/data/ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. 091211 13:19:19 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /storage/mysql/data/mysql3.pid ended ~ The relevant portions of the /storage/mysql/data/mysql directory are (for the first error): -rw-rw---- 1 root root 0 2009-12-11 13:17 plugin.MYD -rw-rw---- 1 root root 1024 2009-12-11 13:17 plugin.MYI -rw-rw---- 1 root root 8586 2009-12-11 13:17 plugin.frm - It appears to me that mysqld is looking for the plugin.frm in the /usr/local/mysql/mysql directory which doesn't exist because my data directory is /storage/mysql/data. The second error, InnoDB: File name /storage/mysql/data/ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create' is probably the show stopper. The relevant portions of my.cnf are: # The MySQL server [mysqld] port = 3306 socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock skip-locking key_buffer = 384M max_allowed_packet = 20M max_sp_recursion_depth = 100 table_cache = 512 sort_buffer_size = 2M read_buffer_size = 2M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M thread_cache = 8 query_cache_size = 32M # Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency thread_concurrency = 8 basedir=/usr/local/mysql datadir=/storage/mysql/data wait_timeout = 10800 max_connections = 600 and # Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables innodb_data_home_dir = /storage/mysql/data innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:2000M;ibdata2:10M:autoextend #innodb_log_group_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/ #innodb_log_arch_dir = /var/lib/mysql/ ignore_builtin_innodb plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb.so;innodb_trx=ha_innodb.so;innodb_locks=ha_innodb.so;innodb_lock_waits=ha_innodb.so;innodb_cmp=ha_innodb.so;innodb_cmp_reset=ha_ innodb.so;innodb_cmpmem=ha_innodb.so;innodb_cmpmem_reset=ha_innodb.so # Note: ha_innodb.so is in the 'plugins' directory. This error makes no sense to me. Can anyone kick me in the right direction? Thanks, Carl
