Bug #11240 Automatic start-up does not work
Submitted: 10 Jun 2005 11:54 Modified: 15 Jun 2005 11:25
Reporter: Ric Dunn Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.6 beta OS:MacOS (OS X 10.4.1)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[10 Jun 2005 11:54] Ric Dunn 
Description:
MySQL will not automatically start when booting the computer.  I had this problem with 5.0.3 and 5.0.4 fixed it (bug 9829).  If I go to the command line and manually invoke "mysql.server start", I get the following:

Starting MySQL................................... ERROR! 

I can manually start the server with "mysqld_safe".

How to repeat:
Install 5.0.6.
[11 Jun 2005 19:57] Ric Dunn 
Apparently 5.0.6 will not launch from mysql.server if there is no my.cnf file in the data directory.  I added my.cnf to the /usr/local/mysql/data directory and automatic start-ups work fine now.
[11 Jun 2005 21:10] Ric Dunn 
Oh, yeah, here's the message from the error log:

050610 07:54:37 mysqld started 
Could not open required defaults file: /usr/local/mysql/data/my.cnf 
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted 
050610 07:54:37 mysqld ended
[15 Jun 2005 11:25] Aleksey Kishkin 
duplicate of http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10940