Install error - unable to wite to /tmp/root/

Hi everyone, I am having a problem starting up mysql. I am unable to run the mysql_install_db routine. When I run it I keep getting the error - unable to write to /tmp/root/... Originally I got the error unable to write to /tmp but that has since changed to the first error. I'm not a newbee t

mysql-3.23.53 HPUX 11.00 fails (bombs) on BDB tests -- NO problems on 3.23.52 with identical config

>Description: When running mysql-test sequence, two of the BDB tests cause mysql to apparently bomb -- all other tests run ok (used --force to verify) Extract of test log is: . . . backup 0.0 0.0 0.1 [ pass ] bdb-alter-table-1 ..