OK I was wrong: those files are mentioned in the doc, but I strictly
followed the manual and I still got those errors.
The first problem is host.frm cannot be found while starting mysqld
(when starting InnoDB) (in the mysqld.log file), and the server start
aborted. The manual says script/mysql_install_db will set the initial
grant tables for me and I don't need to worrry about that before the
server starts. But I still get that error. I am logged in as "root".
I installed Mysql on NT a long time ago and that was easy.
Any help?
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zhao, Charles
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:14 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: MySQL 4.0 Installation Problem
Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Can't find file:
'./mysql/host.frm' (errno 13) ...
Well, since I failed to use RPM to install MySQL 4.0 over 3.23
-- I am not sure if I have to unstall the latter before I install the
former, the manual does not mention that, I went ahead to do a fresh
binary installation of it on my Linux 7, under usr/local/ directory.
Followed the manual step by step until I started the server:
/bin/mysqld_safe & (also tried it with parameter user=mysql),
but I got "mysql ended ... [1]+ Done ./bin/mysqld_safe" msg,
and I could not run any further commands, failing with msgs like
"Can't connect to local MySQL server though socket '/tmp/mysql.sock',
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'
exists!"
then I found in the sql log file: "Fatal error: Can't open
privilege tables: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno 13) ..."
when starting the InnoDB tables.
Both files mysql.sock and host.frm are not mentioned in the
manual, and not found in my file system.
Any one can point out the problem?
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zhao, Charles
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:53 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: MySQL 4.0 Installation Problem
I have 3.23 that comes with my Linux distribution, now
when I tried to do a rpm installation of 4.0, I got messages like:
"warning: MySQL-server-4.0.17 ... .rpm: V3 DSA
signature: NOKEY, key ID ...,
file /usr/bin/mysql from install of
MySQL-client-4.0.17.0 conflicts with file from package mysql-3.23.52-3
...
file /usr/shar/man/man1/ ... from install of ...
conflicts with file from package mysql-3.23...
..."
and the conflict list goes on.
The installation manual does not seem to discuss about
such issues. Do I need to remove my 3.23 before I run the installation?
-- but that's not what the manual says, though. The first warning msg,
is that a problem, too?
Thanks.
