Hello,

Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a
"chmod +x rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started
during boot up. I then rebooted and tried to run
mysqladmin to set the database's root password.
I also tried the database initialization script.
Unfortunately it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run
under Slackware. I even discovered that the rc.mysql script
fails during startup.

Anybody know how to fix this?

I then tried uninstalling and then compiling MySQL from
source and installing that, but the server continues
to exit during boot-up and when I try to run it
from the command line, and without any useful error message.

Thanks.

plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a
> "chmod +x rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started
> during boot up. I then rebooted and tried to run
> mysqladmin to set the database's root password.
> I also tried the database initialization script.
> Unfortunately it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run
> under Slackware. I even discovered that the rc.mysql script
> fails during startup.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> I then tried uninstalling and then compiling MySQL from
> source and installing that, but the server continues
> to exit during boot-up and when I try to run it
> from the command line, and without any useful error message.
>
> Thanks.
>

Anything in the MySQL or system log files?

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plenty900@yahoo.com wrote in news:c59ebd27-0231-4e78-b4c2-d5db062796e8
@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> Hello,
>
> Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a
> "chmod +x rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started
> during boot up. I then rebooted and tried to run
> mysqladmin to set the database's root password.
> I also tried the database initialization script.
> Unfortunately it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run
> under Slackware. I even discovered that the rc.mysql script
> fails during startup.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> I then tried uninstalling and then compiling MySQL from
> source and installing that, but the server continues
> to exit during boot-up and when I try to run it
> from the command line, and without any useful error message.
>
> Thanks.
>

Is there any interesting information in the error log file?

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:32:18 -0700, plenty900 wrote:

> Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a "chmod +x
> rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started during boot up. I then
> rebooted and tried to run mysqladmin to set the database's root
> password. I also tried the database initialization script. Unfortunately
> it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run under Slackware. I even
> discovered that the rc.mysql script fails during startup.

Did you install the initial databases?

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db

> Is there any interesting information in the error log file?

It turns out, my [hostname].err file shows that mysqld can't find a
file called host.frm.

I don't recall such a file when I recently installed MySQL under
Windows.

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:34:43 -0700, plenty900 wrote:

> I don't recall such a file when I recently installed MySQL under
> Windows.

This isn't Windoze, n00b.

> X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0
> User-Agent: G2/1.0

Ummm. Yeah.


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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:34:43 -0700, plenty900 wrote:

> It turns out, my [hostname].err file shows that mysqld can't find a
> file called host.frm.
>
> I don't recall such a file when I recently installed MySQL under
> Windows.

This is not windows, doofus. The initial databases are not installed by
default. YOU must do that if you want to run mysql and you do that by
executing mysql_install_db. Then you must

chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

Only then can you start mysqld and enter root's password.

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.databases.mysql.]
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:34:43 -0700 (PDT), plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Is there any interesting information in the error log file?
>
> It turns out, my [hostname].err file shows that mysqld can't find a
> file called host.frm.
>
> I don't recall such a file when I recently installed MySQL under
> Windows.

It's part of the `host` table in the `mysql` database. Rerunning
mysql_install_db may fix the problem. Check your my.cnf file for
appropriate values for --datadir and --basedir.

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> This is not windows, doofus.

Only a doofus would limit themselves only to Linux.

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:10:47 -0700, plenty900 wrote:

>> This is not windows, doofus.
>
> Only a doofus would limit themselves only to Linux.

good luck with the attitude buttwinkle

*plonk*