Wow some help ;-) Thank you Dan for your long explanatory mail :-) Somethimes it's really good to SHOUT LOUD - so some folks out there DO HEAR you.
I installed MySQL yesterday night and all went wrong, so frustation is obvious. Good idea, try to find some solutions by searching google this way Thanks - A:lex >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Dan Vande More [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. März 2002 18:20 >An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Betreff: RE: problem running the mysql server! > > >A lot of us here use simple techniques for troubleshooting. For errors, I >first look in the log file for mysql. But almost always, I google it. >Google turned up A LOT of results for a 1067, with tons of fixes. >The query I used was "mysqld-nt 1067" >The first results it pulled were from mysql's site, from the manual. If you >dared to look farther down, you would see a medium quantity of people >complaining and wanting somebody to hold their hand. At least 3 or 4 fixes >were VERY well documented, a simple search for 2 words and 3 paragraphs of >reading could have solved your problem. >The 5th google result took me to phpbuilder where the fix was again, well >documented by a very nice guy. >We do try to help, but cannot help you when you're not willing to try >yourself. Ignorance has never helped anyone. >Remember, google indexes mysql, php, phpbuilder.net and TONS of >other sites, >even MS. I never use the MS KB tool to search anymore because it totallty >blows. Instead I use google, because it indexes MS. >Also keep in mind that the third tab of google contains google groups, a 20 >year archive of newsgroup posts, that contain every question you ever plan >on asking, and quite possibly answers. >If you ever get really bored, I suggest taking 5 minutes and skimming here: >http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html >It contains many many cool things, such as the first post about MS, Linus >Torvalds post introducing Linux. Some dude beating on Linux and defending >minix, and arguing with Linus Torvalds. >Post showing Jeff Bezos hiring programmers for amazon.com(before >amazon.com) >and lots of other great stuff. >Sorry this went OT, but perhaps we could point out to some people in this >list the tremendous amount of resources available to them. >PS I don't work for google, nor have anything to do with them, but I am >waiting for them to set up a donation thing, because they've saved >me a huge >amount of time and made me a lot of money. >Dan >Aleksander, what does your log file say? Does the mysqld have >permissions to >write to the directory it's creating the DB's in? > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alexander Hampel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 9:57 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: problem running the mysql server! > >Hi Aleksander, > >Seems to be a problem to get MySQL started. > => but no one of the advanced users/admins in this newsgroup > is interested in helping other users out :-( > >Can't help you with your problem but probably will find it out together. > >Did you get error messages like mine too? >Include here my problem here again (Win2000, MySQL 3.23.49): > >> >>Von: Alexander Hampel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. März 2002 10:11 >>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Betreff: New to MySQL - can't start server :-( >> >> >>Hi mailing list, >> >>I can't start mysqld-nt as I get the eror message 1067. If I start >>winmysqladmin.exe there is no server visible. >> >>The manual tell me in part 2.4 Post-installation Setup and Testing that I >>should start the script ./scripts/mysql_install_db but this script is not >>availabale (at all) at my Windows distribution. >> >>Any ideas what's wrong? >> > >Do you know if there exists a document where error messages are listed? > >I installed 4.0.1-alpha-win and I could start the server - strange, isn't >it? >Try this version too - probably it helps :-) > >So long A:lex > > > > >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>Von: Aleksander Gziut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. März 2002 18:24 >>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Betreff: problem running the mysql server! >> >> >> >>i installed mysql-3.23.36 (*.rpm) on my redhat linux 7.1 (kernel >2.4.2-2 on >>an >>i686) and ran "mysql_install_db" script. then i tried to start the server: >> >>[root@localhost]# safe_mysqld & <<<enter>>> >>[1] 1360 >>[root@localhost]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from >/var/lib/mysql >> >>020317 hh:mm:ss mysqld ended >> >>one question - what's that? why i can't run the server? can anybody help >>me? >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Before posting, please check: >> http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) >> http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) >> >>To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To unsubscribe, e-mail >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Trouble unsubscribing? 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