Bug #20376 Doesn't auto-detect data dir

• Submitted: 10 Jun 2006 23:12
• Modified: 13 Apr 2007 17:57
• Reporter: Olaf van der Spek (Basic Quality Contributor)
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.1.11
• OS: Windows (Windows)
• Assigned to: Reggie Burnett
• CPU Architecture: Any

[10 Jun 2006 23:12] Olaf van der Spek

Description:
5.1.7 auto-detects the data dir (no INI required). 
5.1.11 doesn't do this anymore when it's run as service and requires a my.ini in the Windows directory again.

How to repeat:
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[14 Jun 2006 12:15] Valeriy Kravchuk

Yes, ti run 5.1.11-beta as service successfully you have to --install it with explicit --defaults-file, and this file should contain explicit datadir. This is not required according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/windows-start-service.html, so, it looks like a bug.

mysqld --console works OK without my.ini and uses default datadir.

[17 Jan 2007 18:17] Reggie Burnett

This was the same problem with 5.0.

[17 Jan 2007 21:27] Reggie Burnett

Fixed in 5.0.27

[17 Jan 2007 21:30] Olaf van der Spek

Eh, 5.0.27 has already been released.

[17 Jan 2007 21:35] Reggie Burnett

ok, my mistake.  It's fixed in 5.0.28 then.

[17 Jan 2007 21:42] Reggie Burnett

ok, sorry for the documenting misfires.  I've been working exclusively with Connector/net for some time and lost track of where our 5.0 releases are at.  After talking with Lenz, it appears this bug fix will be in 5.0.36.  I think.  :)

[19 Jan 2007 16:59] Reggie Burnett

pushed into the 5.0-win tree

[3 Apr 2007 20:16] Reggie Burnett

pushed into the 5.1-maint team tree

[6 Apr 2007 17:24] Bugs System

Pushed into 5.1.18-beta

[13 Apr 2007 17:57] Paul DuBois

Noted in 5.0.36, 5.1.18 changelogs.

On Windows, if the server was installed as a service, it did not
auto-detect the location of the data directory.