MySQL Bugs: #46291: Cannot start the database instance after install

Bug #46291	Cannot start the database instance after install
Submitted:	19 Jul 2009 12:26	Modified:	20 Aug 2009 16:14
Reporter:	Arto Hakola	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	5.4.1	OS:	Microsoft Windows (XPSP3 x86)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
After installing the 5.4.1-beta to my Windows XP machine and after I tried to start the instance, I only get following errors to the log?:
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090719 15:15:22 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
InnoDB: The first specified data file .\ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
090719 15:15:22  InnoDB: Setting file .\ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
090719 15:15:23  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile0 size to 128 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100
090719 15:15:24  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile1 size to 128 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
090719 15:15:25  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0
090719 15:15:25 [ERROR] Aborting

090719 15:15:25  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
090719 15:15:27  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 46409
090719 15:15:27 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 1 plugins
090719 15:15:27 [Note] 
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I would like get this running to see the new changes in the product....

How to repeat:
just install from the intaller (custom) and select defaults, except install to the "c:\mysql" directory and no documentation included.
Instance creation wizard fails because of this "problem".

Thank you for the problem report. How much RAM do you have on this machine? Check also Event viewer for unusual messages during this period.

Hi,

I have 3GB of ram.
It seems that the problem cause was that I first uninstalled 5.1 version and it's services (and I didn't reboot the machine after that).
After rebooting and reinstalling the 5.4.1 it went better but I have to start the mysql instance from the command line (net start ...) since the instance wizard wasn't able to start the service?

Thank you for the feedback. Your last comment:
"After rebooting and reinstalling the 5.4.1 it went better but I have to start the mysql instance from the command line (net start ...) since the instance wizard wasn't able to start the service?".

The service was created? and have you selected with automatic start?. Thanks in advance.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".