On tisdag, nov 26, 2002, at 17:57 Europe/Stockholm, Richard Lanyon wrote:
Do you have the 'passwd' package installed? If so, try 'fink reinstall passwd'. If not, install it -- it's the package that creates the users needed for some packages, such as mysql.
Originally I got errors saying that the installation process couldn't chown /sw/var/mysql/test or /sw/var/mysql/mysql (i.e. the databases it installs by default) because the files weren't there. True enough, /sw/var/mysql was there, but was an empty directory. I reckoned this might be a permissions issue - that the /sw/var/mysql was owned incorrectly (perhaps by a mysql user/group created in a previous installation), and so the databases weren't being created properly. So I removed the user and group from the NetInfo database, and also from /etc/passwd and /etc/group, uninstalled almost all of the optional fink packages, and started again. Now I get a different error - this time it says 'chown: mysql: invalid user name'.
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Oscar Erlandsson [erlandsson at mac dot com]
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