Description:
This does not occur in any released version. I have seen this only in 6.0.5.
(If it gets fixed in 6.0.5, no changelog entry will be needed.)
mysql_install_db fails to properly create the mysql database. It creates the
data/mysql directory, but no tables in it. On Linux, I see this:
/var/mysql/60005% bin/mysql_install_db
Installing MySQL system tables...
OK
Filling help tables...
OK
... plus the usual rest of output; that is, there is no clue in the output that anything is wrong.
But little has been created:
/var/mysql/60005% ls -R data
data:
mysql test
data/mysql:
data/test:
On Mac OS X, I see this:
/var/mysql/60005% bin/mysql_install_db
Installing MySQL system tables...
bin/mysql_install_db: line 367: 13461 Broken pipe cat $create_system_tables $fill_system_tables
OK
Filling help tables...
OK
So there is a slight clue, perhaps. The process seemed to create slightly more files:
/var/mysql/60005% ls -R data
binlog.000001 binlog.000002 binlog.index mysql test
data/mysql:
data/test:
Nevertheless, the data/mysql directory remains empty.
This is a real problem; not only does mysql_instal_db fail, it doesn't detect that it has failed.
How to repeat:
See above.
