Adam, Knowing that Mac OS comes with a version of MySQL pre-installed, I didn't do anything special when I downloaded and installed the latest version. I assumed that anything in need of doing would be taken care of during package install. I guess that was just wishful thinking. I'll make the ownership/group changes you suggest below and let you know the results.
Thanks! jim -----Original Message----- From: Fortuno, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:49 PM To: Anderson, James H [IT] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E-mail) Subject: RE: Installation problem James: Yea, you can enable root or just use sudo. Sometimes sudo'ing can be a pain with the timeout and all. Anyway, at first blush I agree with you. When you installed mysql did you give mysql (or whatever account that runs MySQL) rights to the /usr/local/mysql/data directory? Make root the owner of the MySQL directory and place the directory under mysql (or whatever account that runs MySQL) group permissions? Assuming you're running MySQL as user 'mysql' in group 'mysql'. Do the following: chown -R root /usr/local/mysql chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql chwon -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data Then try "mysqld_safe --user=mysql &" from the /usr/local/mysql directory. Got to run to lunch. Be back in about 45 min. Regards, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, James H [IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:21 PM To: Fortuno, Adam Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installation problem Adam, Well, you were right about there being logs :) (I hadn't looked into the data dir since it required root and I was reluctant to setup a root user--live and learn.) 031009 11:12:10 mysqld started 031009 11:12:11 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: See http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html for installation help. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. 031009 11:12:11 mysqld ended Presumably this is due to the permissions on the data dir which are set to drwrxr-x--- What's the best way to solve this? Change the directory permissions or change the characteristics of the mysql user? jim -----Original Message----- From: Fortuno, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:53 AM To: Anderson, James H [IT] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installation problem James, Yea, I have to agree its not starting. Alright, you're probably already in the /usr/local/mysql or you would've seen a nasty message reminding you to execute the mysqld_safe script from mysql's directory. Ugh, (whatelse could it be).. if your running OS X Server.. the scripts name is mysql_safed not mysqld_safe. If it were that you'd probably get a script doesn't exist or something. If you were running as something other than root, you'd get a permission error. Hmm.. Well back to your earlier question. Yes, MySQL's got a bunch of logs. Take a look in the /usr/local/mysql/data/ directory. Look for a file named "<hostname>.err". That log gets input from the mysqld_safe script. This is an interesting problem! I'm running 4.0.13-standard on my laptop; however, I'll throw 4.0.15 on a spare G4. Let me see if I can recreate the issue, and if not, I can tell you what I've done not to get it - make sense? Take a look at the error log and let us know what is says. Regards, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, James H [IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:15 AM To: Fortuno, Adam Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installation problem Adam, Yes, that's how I'm starting it. There are 2 reasons that lead me to believe that it's not running: 1. when I issue "mysql -h localhost test" I get this msg: ERROR 2002: Can' connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61) 2. when I issue "ps -auxww|grep mysql" I get no results other than the grep job Just to be sure, I did this: su (to root) mysqld_safe --user=mysql & and got there msgs: Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data mysqld ended -----Original Message----- From: Fortuno, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:54 AM To: Anderson, James H [IT] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E-mail) Subject: RE: Installation problem James, Hey James! I'm also running MySQL on OS X. Maybe I can lend a hand. First question, are you running this on an X-Serve? So you're doing the following # (1) Going to the mysql directory. cd /usr/local/mysql # (2) Kicking off mysql using the mysqld_safe script. sudo -v <enter password> sudo mysqld_safe --user=mysql & However, from looking at the output you pasted. It doesn't look like MySQL isn't starting up (nothing about the daemon shutting down). How are you seeing its not up? Use the ampersand at the end of the line or you'll lose the terminal session. Once you've kicked off mysql type "mysqladmin version" to confirm the server is online. If you downloaded the absolute most recent version, you should see the result "4.0.15-standard" (or something like it). Drop me a note. Let me know the 411. Regards, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, James H [IT] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installation problem I'm running OS X 10.2.8 and installed the latest OS X mysql package. The problem is the server won't start and there don't seem to be any logs available to help diagnose the problem. I've tried both sudo safe_mysqld Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQL start Starting MySQL database server Any help greatly appreciated! jim -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
