MySQL Bugs: #43573: Solaris cluster pkg install fails

Bug #43573	Solaris cluster pkg install fails
Submitted:	11 Mar 2009 20:19	Modified:	1 Apr 2009 23:43
Reporter:	Mario Beck	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	ndb-6.3.20	OS:	Solaris (OpenSolaris 2008.11)
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	pkg install Solaris OpenSolaris MySQL Cluster

Description:
When trying to install MySQL Cluster 6.3.20 under Solaris from the pkg file, the pkgadd command fails with the following error:

/var/sadm/pkg/mysql-cluster/install/postinstall[40]: cd: /opt/mysql/mysql: [No such file or directory]
/var/sadm/pkg/mysql-cluster/install/postinstall[41]: scripts/mysql_install_db: Not found
cp: cannot access /opt/mysql/mysql/support-files/mysql.server.in
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <mysql-cluster> failed.

How to repeat:
Take any Solaris installation and try to install the MySQL Cluster pkg file, downloaded from the community website:

pkgadd -d mysql-cluster-gpl-6.3.20-solaris10-i386.pkg

Suggested fix:
The cluster package installs files in /opt/mysql/mysql-cluster
But the postinstall scripts are called from /opt/mysql/mysql
The "cd /opt/mysql/mysql" in the postinstall script must be changed to "cd /opt/mysql/mysql-cluster"

Workaround: Before the pkgadd command create a symbolic link:

ln -s /opt/mysql/mysql-cluster /opt/mysql
pkgadd ...

The workaround reveals another bug:
When creating a symolic link "ln -s /opt/mysql/mysql-cluster /opt/mysql/mysql"
the postinstall script will run but it will produce an error:

ERROR: 1004 Can't create file '/var/tmp/installYeayUc/#sql58a_1_0.frm' (errno: 13)
090311 21:48:43 [ERROR] Aborting
...
Installation of system tables failed! ...

There is no directory var/tmp/installYeayUc/
Only /var/tmp

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.

I ran into this same thing.. as of right now is this packag uninstallable? to me it seems like a critical bug because it can't be installed..

Duplicate of bug#41998