Excerpts from Evgeni Golov's message of 2014-03-01 07:55:09 -0800: > Hi Ludwig, > > shot hint: using the reportbug tool (https://wiki.debian.org/reportbug) > helps Debian to gather relevant information about your system and > makes it easier to solve bugs :) > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 02:27:54PM +0100, Ludwig Jaffe wrote: > > package: mysql-server > > version: debian wheezy latest mysql-server > > I guess you mean 5.5.35+dfsg-0+wheezy1? :) > > > Problem: > > mysql-server did not install correctly. Asked for root database > > password, but was not able to set it. Retried a lot, purged whole mysql: > > apt-get purge mysql-server, mysql-common, mysql-client, apt-get autoremove, > > apt-get clean > > . > > Also removed > > rm -rf /etc/mysql > > rm -rf /var/lib/mysql > > > > I had no war relevant databases here. > > > > -- > > Now I reinstalled using apt-get install > > mysql-server, mysql-common, mysql-client > > In all those steps, did you also install/remove the mysql-*-5.5 packages? > > > Also had problems with setting the root name of database. > > Did it by hand mysqld -skip-auth-tables or the like using a howto on the > > web. > > Here it could not write to user.frm or name.frm or the like. > > > > then I had SUCCESS: > > > > I fixed the problem by changig the rights from root:root to see below. > > (please check if the rights are too generous.) > > The server is deployed in intranet and the users are inable to attack > > the IT infrastructure, so the danger is low, though) > > /var/lib/mysql and everything below are usually owned by mysql:mysql on > a fresh install (this is done in the post-installation script of the > mysql-server-5.5) package. The rights are set to 700. > > Do you know what can have changed the rights on your machine? >
I believe this may be a duplicate of bug #737224 which is fixed in unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org