Hello.
Probably mysql_install_db wasn't executed due to SElinux restrictions.
Execute it is manually. Check that your data directory has the 'mysql'
database.
Robert L Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I installed MySQL-server version 5.0.4 on my Fedora Core 3 system
(Linux x86,
Hello,
Thank you! This is what I needed to do to get the server started. I
executed mysql_install_db as the operating system's root user which may
have been a mistake? That set the permissions on the 'mysql' database in
the data directory to root.root, causing the server to fail to start
when
When I installed MySQL-server version 5.0.4 on my Fedora Core 3 system
(Linux x86, using RPMs from MySQL.com) with SELinux running in enforcing
mode, the server failed to start, possibly due to denials from the
SELinux implementation.
'restorecon -R -v /var/lib/mysql' failed to let the server
