That is a permissions error. Mysql does not own the database directory.
chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql
Mailing List Receiver wrote:
> With basedir and datadir=/var/lib/mysql the error is:
> 011001 16:16:42 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
>
> With basedir=/
With basedir and datadir=/var/lib/mysql the error is:
011001 16:16:42 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
With basedir=/var/lib/mysql and datadir not set:
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysql/var/' (Errcode: 2)
011001 16:18:23 Aborting
011001
