Bug #55754 HTTP error 404 written into fill_help_tables.sql, mysql_install_db and MTR fail
Submitted: 5 Aug 2010 1:44 Modified: 12 Jun 2017 18:43
Reporter: Elena Stepanova Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.6.0-m4 OS:Any
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

[5 Aug 2010 1:44] Elena Stepanova 
Description:
On latest pushes on trunk bootstrap fails with 

ERROR: 1064  You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version
 for the right syntax to use near '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not F' at line 1
100805  3:34:28 [ERROR] Aborting

fill_help_tables.sql contains the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /docs/refman-5.6/en/help-tables/fill_help_tables.sql was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) PHP/5.1.6 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 mod_auth_tkt/2.2.0 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8b Server
at docsrva.mysql.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

How to repeat:
Try to start server using MTR and check bootstrap.log, 
or run mysql_install_db and observe the failure