On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:30:55 you wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote: > > On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote: > > > On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: > > >> I stop apach& mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then restart > > >> them both. Haven't had problems since. > > > > > > I tried it that way: > > > > > > /etc/init.d/apache2 stop > > > /etc/init.d/mysql stop > > > emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world > > > emerge --depclean > > > revdep-rebuild > > > /etc/init.d/mysql start > > > /etc/init.d/apache2 start > > > > > > Still the same: databases are gone, mysql is empty. Only users > > > are there. This is strange: how can updating mysql from one stable > > > version to higher stable cause complete loss of databases??? > > > > > > Jarry > > > > IIRC the default my.cnf changed for the worse in Gentoo's 5.1.x ebuild. > > Try making a copy of your original my.cnf and put it into place once > > you've upgraded. Else you may need to modify the mysql home and data > > paths in the new my.cnf to reflect where the database are actually > > installed. > > I just updated to mysql-5.1.50-r1 on a x86 box, ran revdep-rebuild which > amidst others rebuilt apache and php and all is good now. dispatch-conf > updated only a couple of lines on the config file. > > The default paths were not affected on any of the 5 mysql databases I'm > running currently.
Oops! I spake too soon! :-( I cannot access two databases. Both have #mysql50# infront of the name of the original database. What does this mean? How do I fix it? Other databases are fine, their names appearing without this strange prefix. -- Regards, Mick
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