Thanks for the reply. I feel it is getting me somewhere, but I'm not there yet.
The log said, regarding the most recent attempt:
040407 09:55:24 mysqld started
040407 9:55:25 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: See http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html for installation help.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
040407 09:55:25 mysqld ended
What directory is it referring to? What user/group does mysqld need? I
The data directory, as you indicate that you already know below. The user account that is relevant here is whatever account you use for running the server. I will suppose that this is "mysql" on your system?
referred to the web site it mentioned, and the page was enormous without an apparent section on installation or authorization issues. A search revealed that it thought the mysql server should have access to 'datadir'. Well, duh.
My data directory shows:
[iMac-dv:local/mysql/data] kj% ls -al total 8 drwxr-x--- 5 root wheel 170 5 Apr 08:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 10 Feb 13:05 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 mysql wheel 2234 7 Apr 09:55 iMac-dv.local.err drwxr-x--- 20 root wheel 680 10 Feb 13:05 mysql/ drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 68 10 Feb 13:05 test/
So, what now?
This shows that it's owned by root/wheel. You want it to be owned by mysql/some-group. I don't know what group that will be for you. mysql? Anyway, in that directory, run this command as root:
chown -R mysql .
That changes the ownership of the directory and everything under it to mysql.
Then restart the server, either from the mysql account, or as root with the --user=mysql option.
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