>Description: After running the RPM installs the user/group mysql/mysql is not created and neither is /var/lib/mysql directory. So when I attempt to start mysql daemon this happens :
[root@dino masiak]# /sbin/service mysql start [root@dino masiak]# touch: creating `/var/lib/mysql/dino.err': No such file or directory chown: `mysql': invalid user Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 272: /var/lib/mysql/dino.err: No such file or directory /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 278: /var/lib/mysql/dino.err: No such file or directory tee: /var/lib/mysql/dino.err: No such file or directory 030219 01:45:06 mysqld ended tee: /var/lib/mysql/dino.err: No such file or directory >How-To-Repeat: I tried to uninstall and install the RPM's again and no luck. >Fix: I suppose I can create the user/group and directory myslef, such as specified in the binary installation. >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: Marcin Jekot >Organization: private >MySQL support: none >Synopsis: rpm install fails >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Category: mysql >Class: sw-bug >Release: mysql-4.0.10-gamma (Official MySQL RPM) >C compiler: 2.95.3 >C++ compiler: 2.95.3 >Environment: System: Linux dino 2.4.18-24.8.0 #1 Fri Jan 31 06:51:30 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --host=i386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpentium' CXX='g++' CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' LDFLAGS='' ASFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 26 12:39 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.93.so -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1235468 Sep 6 00:12 /lib/libc-2.2.93.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2233342 Sep 5 23:59 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Sep 5 23:50 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure '--disable-shared' '--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static' '--with-client-ldflags=-all-static' '--without-berkeley-db' '--with-innodb' '--without-vio' '--without-openssl' '--enable-assembler' '--enable-local-infile' '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--prefix=/' '--with-extra-charsets=complex' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-embedded-server' '--enable-thread-safe-client' '--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM' 'CFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpentium' 'CXXFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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