Bug #30130 Failed Installation of MySQL on Mac OS X

• Submitted: 30 Jul 2007 20:48
• Modified: 30 Aug 2007 21:02
• Reporter: Brian Boye
• Status: No Feedback
• Category: MySQL Server: Installing
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 10.4
• OS: MacOS
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: mysql 5.0.45 mac oS

[30 Jul 2007 20:48] Brian Boye

Description:
I am installing Mysql 5.0.45 on mac OS 10.4 

Downloaded binary mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-universal 

uncompressed tarball

run the following in shell

ln -s MY-PATH-TO-UNCOMPRESSED-TAR mysql
cd mysql
chown -R mysql .
chgrp -R mysql .
scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql --force

can't create or write to file /usr/local/var/mysql/db.MYI (Errcode:13)
Installation of system tables failed

I checked the file permissions and everything is fine. I willl like to report this as a bug on Mac OS X

How to repeat:
Downloaded binary mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-universal 

uncompressed tarball

run the following in shell

ln -s MY-PATH-TO-UNCOMPRESSED-TAR mysql
cd mysql
chown -R mysql .
chgrp -R mysql .
scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql --force

[30 Jul 2007 21:02] Sveta Smirnova

Thank you for the report.

Please provide output of command `id`

[30 Aug 2007 23:00] Bugs System

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