Hi Robert, The value in my.cnf is datadir=/var/lib/mysql. The directory is initially empty, which I believe is normal; there shouldn't be anything in there until mysqld is started for the first time (at least that's the behaviour of 5.6.22, which works fine). After mysqld fails to start, an empty mysql directory is created.
Cameron On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Bob Eby <eby...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > I've seen a similar error running on windows 7. > > When you look in your datadir= specified in my.ini what is there exactly > (hopefully not empty)? Do you have a mysql folder containing plugin.* files > at this location? (say .MYI etc) > > It sounds like your data folders were either not copied to the correct place > or not properly configured before starting the server. > > It's been a while, but I recall there being an "install" step to getting the > correct basic database files into your datadir specified in my.ini. > > Good Luck, > Robert Eby -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
