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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 11:33 -0400 7/2/03, Andrew Pierce wrote: > >I am getting ready to try to upgrade MySQL on my RedHat 9 box. I want to > >go from the version that came with the distro (version 3.23.54) to the > >latest (verion 4.0). > > > >Just thought I'd post to get a heads-up on any known issues or > >prerequisites. I just hate it when I try something like this and screw up > >my whole installation. > > > >My planned steps are to: > > > >1. mysqldump everything to a backup file > >2. stop the service > >3. uninstall all the current rpm's > >4. install the fresh rpm's > >5. startup > >6. \. the file from step 1 > > > >Anything I need to lookout for? If you want to keep apps that shipped with the distro but are linked against the 3.23 libmysqlclient, you may want to install MySQL-shared-compat to satisfy the RPM library dependencies. > That should work, but after you install the new RPM files, use > > chkconfig --list mysql > > to make sure that the server is set to start on runlevels 2 through 5. > If it's not, use: > > chkconfig --levels 2345 mysql on > > Otherwise, the server won't start automatically at system boot time. > > This problem has been seen on RH 8 and RH 9. I understand it's been > fixed now, but I'm not sure if the fix is in the current release or > the next one. It will be fixed for 4.0.14: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=272 Bye, LenZ - -- Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Production Engineer MySQL GmbH, http://www.mysql.de/ Hamburg, Germany For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mlgr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE/BIQsSVDhKrJykfIRAsaIAJ0RkCCcoWOTJ1gHCkZ+MSvvt3vxBACfeW7X P7xkEZ1GfESz7bwMpF4+5/E= =aHHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
