> On Jul 25, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Bill Christensen <billc_li...@greenbuilder.com> > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > in the instructions at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MySQL (written to > MySQL56, though I'm using the same instructions to install MySQL57 instead), > it says to run > > sudo -u _mysql mysql_install_db > > Doing so for MySQL57 gives the message: > > [WARNING] mysql_install_db is deprecated. Please consider switching to > mysqld --initialize > > I tried > > sudo -u _mysql mysqld --initialize > > but that gave me > > [ERROR] --initialize specified but the data directory has files in it. > Aborting. > > which appears to be true.... Is there a different command I should be using, > or are there some missing options which need to be specified?
Did you check https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MySQL#mysql_upgrade ? > When I load MySQL and try to connect I get > > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/opt/local/var/run/mysql57/mysqld.sock' (2) > > Any hints on where I'm going wrong? That sounds like the server did not start. The log file might say why. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
