On Thursday 09 February 2006 01:14, Sarpy Sam wrote: > I presented this problem on the forums and have made no head way so I > present it here to see if I can find a solution. > > I am going to ask a real stupid question here so bear with me. > > I currently have mysql 5.0.18 installed and am trying to upgrade to > the slotted version 5.0.18-r30. I am following the upgrade guide found > at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrade-slotted.xml > > I am having trouble at step 3 > > Important: If you are upgrading between version revisions (ie. > dev-db/mysql-5.0.18 to dev-db/mysql-5.0.18-r30), you can simply stop > the database, move from one data directry to the other, and restart > the server. This allows you to skip this section entirely. > > > Can somebody please tell me how I "move from one data directry to the > other." I am not quite sure what that means or how to do it. Thanks. > > Somebody on the forums asked if I copied the contents of > /var/lib/mysql to /var/lib/mysql-500. I tried this but then mysql-500 > failed to start like the procedure said. The error I got in the log > was; > > In the /var/log/mysql-500/mysqld.err > > 060205 13:01:32 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and > --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL > server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use > '--log-bin=host-bin' to avoid this problem. > /usr/sbin/mysqld-500: File './host-bin.index' not found (Errcode: 13) > 060205 13:01:32 [ERROR] Aborting > > 060205 13:01:32 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld-500: Shutdown complete > > So now where do I go and what do I do? I will add the host-bin.index > file is in the directory. > > Thanks for any help. > > Kirby
you need to rename /etc/mysql to something like /etc/mysql-999 or delete if you are going to unmerge 5.0.18 then use eselect mysql to set your desired version check my.cnf is it to your likings and /etc/conf.d/mysql points to correct version at mycnf= start server few weeks ago here was email about sloted mysql explaining all m -- Linux 2.6.15-ck3 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 02:05:50 up 2:21, 4 users, load average: 2.46, 2.27, 2.14
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