On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Tianyin Xu <t...@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote: > Hi, guys, > > I'm new to MySQL. I installed MySQL step-by-step according to the manual > from source code. The version is mysql-5.5.28. > > When I start the server using: > #bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql > > The server failed to start with the following message in the log (attached > below). > > There're two problems according to the log messages: > > 1. > > 121112 13:00:59 [ERROR] Can't read from messagefile > '/usr/local/mysql/data/errmsg.sys > > I'm confused because I do have this file which is owned by user "mysql": > > #ll /usr/local/mysql/data/errmsg.sys > -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 0 Nov 12 12:35 /usr/local/mysql/data/errmsg.sys
Check the permissions of all the dirs in that path: /usr, /usr/local, /usr/local/mysql, /usr/local/mysql/data. The mysql user will need r-x access to all of them. > 2. > > 121112 13:00:59 [ERROR] An old style --language value with language > specific part detected: /usr/local/mysql/data/ > > I commented the "lc-messages-dir" configuration entry in the my.cnf, but > the error still exists... Don't know what platform you're on, but on my Mac I had this issue, and I got around it by starting the server with: --lc-messages-dir="/usr/local/mysql/share/" On CentOS and RHEL I did not have this issue. HTH- larry -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
