Bug #3981 Unable to proceed further mysql_install_db
Submitted: 3 Jun 2004 9:02 Modified: 19 Oct 2004 22:28
Reporter: Sulabh Nangalia Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:4.0.20 OS:Linux (Linux 8)
Assigned to: Matthew Lord CPU Architecture:Any

[3 Jun 2004 9:02] Sulabh Nangalia
Description:
I'm using MySQL 4.0.20 Linux 8 Source Distribution. It is being installed on this system for the first time : The postinstall (bin/mysql_install_db) procedure doesn't complete due to the following error:

[root@tirgdel38 mysql]# bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
Preparing db table
Preparing host table
Preparing user table
Preparing func table
Preparing tables_priv table
Preparing columns_priv table
Installing all prepared tables
mysqld got signal 11;
This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary
or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built,
or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose
the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong
and this may fail.

key_buffer_size=16777216
read_buffer_size=131072
max_used_connections=0
max_connections=100
threads_connected=1
It is possible that mysqld could use up to
key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 80383 K
bytes of memory
Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation.

thd=0x838e590
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong...
Cannot determine thread, fp=0xbf5fea88, backtrace may not be correct.
Stack range sanity check OK, backtrace follows:
0x808a356
0x8238a44
0x8249ee6
0x809b611
0x809e3b7
0x809b298
0x8095850
0x8233e99
0x826b11a
bin/mysql_install_db: line 1:  1960 Segmentation fault      /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --bootstrap --skip-grant-tables --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/var --skip-innodb --skip-bdb
Installation of grant tables failed!

Examine the logs in /usr/local/mysql/var for more information.
You can also try to start the mysqld daemon with:
/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --skip-grant &
You can use the command line tool
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql to connect to the mysql
database and look at the grant tables:

shell> /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root mysql
mysql> show tables

Try 'mysqld --help' if you have problems with paths. Using --log
gives you a log in /usr/local/mysql/var that may be helpful.

The latest information about MySQL is available on the web at
http://www.mysql.com
Please consult the MySQL manual section: 'Problems running mysql_install_db',
and the manual section that describes problems on your OS.
Another information source is the MySQL email archive.
Please check all of the above before mailing us!
And if you do mail us, you MUST use the /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqlbug script!

Here is some stats from mysqlbug: 

Release:       mysql-4.0.20 (Source distribution)

C compiler:    gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
C++ compiler:  gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
Environment:
      <machine, os, target, libraries (multiple lines)>
System: Linux tirgdel38.tirgatg 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686

Some paths:  /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --host=i386-redhat-linux --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
Compilation info: CC='gcc'  CFLAGS='-O3'  CXX='gcc'  CXXFLAGS='-O3'  LDFLAGS=''  ASFLAGS=        ''
LIBC:
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Jun 13  2003 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.93.so
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1235468 Sep  6  2002 /lib/libc-2.2.93.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2233342 Sep  6  2002 /usr/lib/libc.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          178 Sep  6  2002 /usr/lib/libc.so
Configure command: ./configure '--prefix=/usr/local/mysql' '--enable-assembler' '--with-client-ldflags=-all-static' '--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static' '--with-unix-socket-path=/usr/local/mysql/temp/mysql.sock' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O3' 'CXXFLAGS=-O3' 'CXX=gcc'

How to repeat:
Run the following commands on an identical system:

groupadd mysql

useradd -g mysql mysql

tar zxvf mysql-4.0.20 .tar.gz

cd mysql-4.0.20

CC=gcc CXX=gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --enable-assembler --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --with-unix-socket-path=/usr/local/mysql/temp/mysql.sock

make

make install

cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf

cd /usr/local/mysql

bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
[4 Jun 2004 2:59] Matthew Lord
you should not use the --user=mysql option with mysql_install_db as that mysql user account does not
exist in a new installation.

Please let me know if you have problems w/o using that option.
[4 Jun 2004 17:52] Matthew Lord
Hi, 

I am going to try this on a Red Hat 8 machine.  Is there anything else I should be aware of regarding 
your particular environment?
[4 Jun 2004 19:14] Matthew Lord
Hi,

I went through the steps you listed to repeat the problem on a Red Hat 8 box and I was unable to 
reproduce the problem you encountered.

Are you sure those are the exact steps that you took to build mysql?  Is there anything else I should 
know about your build environment?

Also, could you try our pre-built 4.1.2 binary for x86 linux and see if you also have the problem with 
our binaries?

Best Regards
[7 Jun 2004 6:55] Sulabh Nangalia
Hi Matthew,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I went through the same steps as I described except that I created the group and user after executing 'cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf' command. There is nothing more to tell about my build environment.
I can not carry out any more experiments now as, now I do not have any root previlages on this system. Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Sulabh