On 2002-01-02, Robert Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I go to launch, it gives me the "Starting mysqld daemon with > databases..." etc. message. It then fails immediately with the message > "mysqld ended." > Here's the content of the error file in the data directory: > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Fatal error: Can't find messagefile > '/usr/local/mysql-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686/mysql-4.0.1-alpha-pc-lin > ux-gnu-i686/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys' Possible stupid workaround: create a symlink in /usr/local/mysql-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686/ called mysql-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686 pointing to . This way attempts to look up paths with extra mysql-4... elements will loop back to the toplevel install dir and find what they think they want. -- Hank Leininger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
