Description:
I downloaded mysql-6.0.3-alpha-linux-x86_64-glibc23.tar.gz for my
AMD64 machine to play with it. I started out with Giuseppe's
mysql-sandbox script to try to set up a throwaway. This has always
worked great for me before, but the server wouldn't start this time.
I looked in the error log:
080203 09:35:55 mysqld_safe The file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld
does not exist or is not executable. Please cd to the mysql installation
directory and restart this script from there as follows:
./bin/mysqld_safe&
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqld_safe.html for more information
I tried starting mysqld_safe manually, and got the same thing. It
looks like it's not detecting the directories right. So I looked at
the bin/mysqld_safe script and saw this:
205 MY_PWD=`pwd`
206 # Check for the directories we would expect from a binary release install
207 if test -f ./share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys -a -x ./bin/mysqld
208 then
209 MY_BASEDIR_VERSION=$MY_PWD # Where bin, share and data are
210 ledir=$MY_BASEDIR_VERSION/bin # Where mysqld is
211 # Check for the directories we would expect from a source install
212 elif test -f ./share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys -a -x ./libexec/mysqld
213 then
214 MY_BASEDIR_VERSION=$MY_PWD # Where libexec, share and var are
215 ledir=$MY_BASEDIR_VERSION/libexec # Where mysqld is
216 # Since we didn't find anything, used the compiled-in defaults
217 else
218 MY_BASEDIR_VERSION=/usr/local/mysql
219 ledir=/usr/local/mysql/bin
220 fi
The problem I see is, there's no share/mysql/english/ directory after
untarring the downloaded file:
baron@kanga:~/mysql_source/6.0.3$ find -name english
./share/english
How to repeat:
Download, untar, try to start mysqld_safe from bin directory.
Suggested fix:
Changing lines 206 and 212 to ./share/english/... worked for me, but I doubt this fix will cover all cases.
