On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tianyin Xu <t...@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Larry, > > Thanks a lot for the reply! > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > I already did so. It's weird... From the log, it seems that mysqld > encountered some problem when reading the messagefile. But the file does > exist with permission. > > > >> > 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/" >> > > I'm working on Ubuntu-12.04. Yes, the configuration parameter is set as > /usr/local/mysql/data/ (see the error message). I tried your setting but > this time mysqld tells me > > 121112 13:46:28 [ERROR] bin/mysqld: unknown variable > 'lc-message-dir=/usr/local/mysql/share/' > 121112 13:46:28 [ERROR] Aborting > > What a mess... > > > Oh, the above error message is caused by my typo. Yes, I set --lc-messages-dir="/usr/local/mysql/share/", and everything's ok... The latter error message (i.e., messagefile) is the chain reaction caused by the previous one (lc-messages-dir) which confused me. Thanks a lot, Larry! Tianyin > >> On CentOS and RHEL I did not have this issue. >> >> HTH- >> larry >> > > > Probably I shall go to GDB to understand what's happening here... > > Great thanks! > > T > > -- > Tianyin XU, > http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/ > -- Tianyin XU, http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/
