MySQL Bugs: #30758: Error in documentation for workaround of mysql_install

Bug #30758	Error in documentation for workaround of mysql_install_db problems
Submitted:	1 Sep 2007 21:50	Modified:	6 Sep 2007 16:33
Reporter:	Matthew Montgomery	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.1.21	OS:	Linux (Linux matt-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux)
Assigned to:	Paul DuBois	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mysql_install_db

Description:
Documentation states that:

Subsequent to release, it was discovered that on some platforms, mysql_install_db could fail to find its message file, resulting in error messages... 

To deal with this problem, specify a --language  option to specify the proper pathname to the file. For example:

shell> mysql_install_db --language=/path/to/share/english/errmsg.sys

should say
shell> mysql_install_db --language=/path/to/share/english/

How to repeat:
The described usage results in :

070901 16:46:58 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '/home/matt/sandbox/mysql51/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys/errmsg.sys'

Page with error in question is : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-21.html

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.