Bug #39194 Falcon fails on recognizing datadir

Submitted:	2 Sep 2008 16:43	Modified:	8 Sep 2008 21:05
Reporter:	Ingo Strüwing	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Falcon storage engine	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	6.0.7	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	regression

Description:
To avoid use of a system-supplied my.cnf I use to install with

    mysql_install_db --no-defaults

This works with BASEDIR and DATADIR in the environment:

env | egrep 'BASEDIR|DATADIR'
BASEDIR=/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain
DATADIR=/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var

The directories exist:

ls -ld "$DATADIR"
drwxr-xr-x 4 istruewing istruewing 4096  2. Sep 18:14 /home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var

I did run "make install".
But Falcon claims the directory does not exist:

$BASEDIR/bin/mysql_install_db --no-defaults
Installing MySQL system tables...
Falcon: The specified serial log directory, "/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var/", does not exist.
Falcon: The serial log directory must be created by the user before initializing Falcon.
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Falcon: Exception 'Invalid serial log directory path "/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var/"' during initialization
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Plugin 'Falcon' init function returned error.
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Plugin 'Falcon' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
OK
Filling help tables...
Falcon: The specified serial log directory, "/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var/", does not exist.
Falcon: The serial log directory must be created by the user before initializing Falcon.
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Falcon: Exception 'Invalid serial log directory path "/home2/mydev/bzrinst/install-6.0-amain/var/"' during initialization
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Plugin 'Falcon' init function returned error.
080902 18:14:13 [ERROR] Plugin 'Falcon' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
OK

To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy
...

This happens on 6.0.7, including the fix for Bug#38843 (Falcon does not start if datadir is located on home directory on Solaris). (/home2/mydev is the home directory of istruewing.)

Tested on
OS: Debian GNU/Linux/x86_64
OS: Debian Sid kernel 2.6.26  SMP PREEMPT
gcc (Debian 4.3.1-8) 4.3.1

How to repeat:
See description.

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described with any specified --datadir located in the home directory on 32-bit Linux.

Probably duplicate of bug #39098

Bug #39098 was marked as duplicate of this one.

Duplicate of Bug #39098.

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