Bug #11734 Mysql rhel4 packages break rhel4 setup
Submitted: 5 Jul 2005 0:54 Modified: 6 Jul 2005 4:02
Reporter: Harald Kapper Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:4.1.12 OS:Linux (RHEL4)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[5 Jul 2005 0:54] Harald Kapper 
Description:
hi
actually I installed these files:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4127815 May 15 04:25 MySQL-client-standard-4.1.12-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  515953 May 15 04:25 MySQL-debuginfo-4.1.12-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2707874 May 15 04:25 MySQL-devel-standard-4.1.12-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 9005167 May 15 04:25 MySQL-server-standard-4.1.12-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1188810 May 15 04:25 MySQL-shared-standard-4.1.12-0.rhel4.i386.rpm

afterwards myql is not able to start anymore :-(

mysql user is gone

mysql can't start for obvious reasons.

removing the server and installing it with rpm -ivh    works - but mysql-user gets new uid and virtually anything goes nuts....

How to repeat:
install as described

Suggested fix:
fix the install/upgrade scripts
[6 Jul 2005 4:01] Jorge del Conde 
I was unable to reproduce this bug having 4.1.9 installed and upgrading to 4.1.12
[6 Jul 2005 21:42] Harald Kapper 
hi
actually current release from redhat would be: 4.1.10a from https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-471.html

I'll reinstall a box today to verify this behaviour