Hey Hank, guess what? <G> It worked. Thanks for the nudge. Adding the symlink did exactly the expected things, and 4.0.1 is now launched. Now I wonder what the actual *cause* of the problem is...
Thanks, buddy, all the best, /Rob At 14:27 -0500 2002/01/02, Hank Leininger wrote: >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]> -- Robert Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 416-823-6599 http://www.workmate.ca WWW Database Applications and Web Hosting Searchable MySQL List Archive: http://archive.workmate.ca/myarchive --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
