> Any particular reason why the repositories aren't good enough? Seems > they'd save you a lot of headache.. I would rather compile it from source, I'm not in a big hurry to get everything up, and I like doing everything from source.
> What user are you running MySQL as? What user installed/owns the files? I'm starting mysql with # mysqld --user=mysqld (and the mysqld user does exist). mysqld owns the executables under /usr/local/bin (mysql stuff is the only stuff in there at the moment), and mysqld owns /var/lib/mysql. > 1) did you run mysql_install_db to initialize the internal mysql db? > 2) did you do what it says? "run mysql_upgrade" I did run mysql_install_db and it did appear to succeed.. I didn't see any errors, anyway. I then proceeded to run mysql_secure_installation as recommended by mysql_install_db, and it threw errors about not being able to connect through /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock. > Also, you probably need to start it with --skip-grant the first time > to bypass authentication to set up the mysql root user's password. This in combination with mysql_install_db yielded the most progress so far. Here is what I got: # mysqld --user=mysqld --skip-grant 110204 13:28:08 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233 110204 13:28:08 [ERROR] mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/time_zone_leap_second.frm' (errno: 13) 110204 13:28:08 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Can't find file: './mysql/time_zone_leap_second.frm' (errno: 13) trying to live without them 110204 13:28:08 [ERROR] mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/servers.frm' (errno: 13) 110204 13:28:08 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Can't find file: './mysql/servers.frm' (errno: 13) 110204 13:28:08 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.1.53' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Source distribution Now it seems to be blocking though. I can't ctrl+z or ctrl+c to get back to the shell. Thanks! Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
