Bug #22957 mysqld startup fails with Can't find messagefile (...)errmsg.sys
Submitted: 3 Oct 2006 17:58 Modified: 11 Jan 2008 10:42
Reporter: Ruben Reifenberg Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:.0.45, 5.0.27, 5.0.24a-community-nt for Win32 on ia32 OS:Windows (Windows 98 SE)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[3 Oct 2006 17:58] Ruben Reifenberg 
Description:
Server startup fails with this message:
[ERROR] Can't find messagefile 'D:\prog\MySQL\MySQLServer\share\english\errmsg.sys'

The c:\windows\my.ini path lines are correct:
 #Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this.
 basedir="D:/prog/MySQL/MySQLServer/"

 #Path to the database root
 datadir="D:/prog/MySQL/MySQLServer/Data/"

See also: Bug #15209  	MySQL installation problem on Windows ME.
This was absolutely similar. Status is fixed/closed since 5.0.17 but this was obviously fixed for Windows ME only.

How to repeat:
Install the 5.0.24a-community-nt for Win32 on ia32 on win 98 SE.
Run the configuration wizard (maybe not necessary).
Execute the mysqld-nt executable.

Suggested fix:
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[28 Oct 2006 19:31] Simon 
See

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,59081,59691,quote=1

for a patch that worked for me on Windows 98SE.
[23 Dec 2006 13:54] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a problem report. Please, try to repeat with a newer version, 5.0.27, and iform about the results.
[4 Jan 2007 5:19] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Bug #25400 was marked as a duplicate of this one. We have the same problem with 5.0.27.
[3 May 2007 19:09] MySQL Verification Team 
Could you please try with latest released version. Thanks in advance.
[17 May 2007 18:37] Andrea Adiamini 
The problem still exists also on Windows ME. I just installed 5.0.41 no-install version on a Windows ME machine. From the command line, mysqld command return the following:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\xitami\mysql\bin>mysqld
070517 20:32:45 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile 'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\xitami\mysql\share\english\errmsg.sys'
070517 20:32:45 [ERROR] Aborting

Path is correct, i tried addind basedir, datadir, using my.ini, my.cnf, both, none, command line parameters ... nothing seems to work.
[3 Jun 2007 23:00] Bugs System 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[8 Jan 2008 18:54] Dmitry Selitsky 
Also has this problem when starting as a service.
//WinXP sp2, mysql-5.0.45-win32

З.Ы. Shame on mySQL, returning to DB2
[11 Jan 2008 10:42] MySQL Verification Team 
Windows 9x isn't more supported.