Re: can't start the server

2003-12-20 Thread Tobias Asplund
Can the user the mysqld process run as (usually the mysql user) read/write the /var/lib/data directory without problems? Does your /etc/my.cnf file contain a datadir = /var/lib/mysql or is it pointing somewhere else? Did adding skip-innodb to your my.cnf solve anything? On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, lan

Re: can't start the server

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Stassen
landon kelsey wrote: I run safe_mysqld out of /usr with ./bin/safe_mysqld & /var/log/mysqld.log 868 031219 20:52:52 mysqld started 869 Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set. 870 If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line 871 skip-innodb

RE: Can't start the server

2001-03-09 Thread Rick Emery
You may have a permissions problem. I had the same error. Ensure that /var, /var/lib, and /var/lib/mysql have the following permissions: drwxr-xr-x then restart the client. rick -Original Message- From: Omaro A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:25 PM To: [EM