brap
May 30, 2005, 02:39 PM
Right, so finally getting around to doing some dev work after exam silly season, and since Tiger was a fresh install for me, I need to reinstall MySQL. It's been fine in the past, but now I seem to have broken the intstaller somehow.
After running the latest darwin 7.9 build (MySQL 4.1) installer, the prefpane reports "Server running" all the time. Except it's not. So, I gave mysql user write privileges to /tmp/, and voila! mysqld starts.
Except it's not really. To start, mysqld performs tests to ensure it has write access to /usr/local/[..]/data - but when I run mysql_secure_installation, I get:
touch: .my.cnf.5739: Permission denied
touch: .mysql.5739: Permission denied
chmod: .my.cnf.5739: No such file or directory
chmod: .mysql.5739: No such file or directory. Therefore, I assume I have no write permissions to wherever it's putting those temp files.
Except I do. It's very confusing.
I've tried rm -rf [mysql folder]
rm /tmp/mysql.sockand reinstalling, but the same problems keep coming back.
Are these the only files I need to get rid of, or am I missing something? Yes, I have tried the entropy.ch uninstall shell script, to no avail...
After running the latest darwin 7.9 build (MySQL 4.1) installer, the prefpane reports "Server running" all the time. Except it's not. So, I gave mysql user write privileges to /tmp/, and voila! mysqld starts.
Except it's not really. To start, mysqld performs tests to ensure it has write access to /usr/local/[..]/data - but when I run mysql_secure_installation, I get:
touch: .my.cnf.5739: Permission denied
touch: .mysql.5739: Permission denied
chmod: .my.cnf.5739: No such file or directory
chmod: .mysql.5739: No such file or directory. Therefore, I assume I have no write permissions to wherever it's putting those temp files.
Except I do. It's very confusing.
I've tried rm -rf [mysql folder]
rm /tmp/mysql.sockand reinstalling, but the same problems keep coming back.
Are these the only files I need to get rid of, or am I missing something? Yes, I have tried the entropy.ch uninstall shell script, to no avail...
