Bug #34586 Misleading error message on binlog index not writeable

• Submitted: 15 Feb 2008 10:47
• Modified: 15 Feb 2008 14:49
• Reporter: Kristian Koehntopp
• Status: Verified
• Category: MySQL Server: Replication
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.0.46-enterprise-gpl-log
• OS: Any
• Assigned to: Assigned Account
• CPU Architecture: Any

[15 Feb 2008 10:47] Kristian Koehntopp

Description:
When the binlog.index is not writeable, the error message says "not found", instead of printing the error text from perror():

080215 11:39:23  mysqld started
/usr/local/mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.46-linux-i686-glibc23/bin/mysqld: File './linux-bin.index' not found (Errcode: 13)
080215 11:39:23 [ERROR] Aborting

How to repeat:
Change the permissions of the binlog.index file to make it not writeable by the server.
Start the server.
Watch the error message.

It should say 

080215 11:39:23  mysqld started
/usr/local/mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.46-linux-i686-glibc23/bin/mysqld: File './linux-bin.index' permission denied (Errcode: 13)

Suggested fix:
Use the perror(3) function in glibc instead of making up wrong text messages yourself.

[15 Feb 2008 14:49] Susanne Ebrecht

Verified as described with newest bk tree.

The error should be something like: "permission denied" instead of "file not found".