I have redhat 7.3 with the mysql packages that came with it. Since RHSA-2003:093-14 came out I upgraded mysql with
mysql-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm mysql-server-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm
When I try to start mysqld I get the following error message in the log:
Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist.
After googling around a bit and looking at the mysql and redhat lists I found that this is well-known problem so I didn't panic and indeed found several useful suggestions:
1. The path to the basedir and/or datadir are not set properly but I did set it properly in /etc/my.cnf (the original that came with rh7.3 and the update were incorrect).
2. The privilages and/or ownership of the basedir and/or datadir are not set properly but I also did that, even setting it to 777 and ownership given to user mysql. I (would :)) use user mysql to run mysqld.
3. Mysqld is complaining about innodb but since I don't need it I give the option --skip-innodb to mysqld and this sorts all innodb issues out.
After all this the bloody error message is still there and mysqld wouldn't start!
Anyone has an idea?
A related question: I thought about installing the RPM from mysql.com instead of the one provided by redhat. Since the RPM from redhat doesn't seem to be of the same nature as the one from mysql.com I'm not sure if I can simply do rpm -Fvh <name of the package from mysql.com> on top of the package from redhat. Do you have any comments on this?
I would be very grateful for any help, thanks,
Daniel
Some (hopefully) useful info: glibc-2.2.5-34 kernel-2.4.20-18 arch: i686
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