Bug #62440 Installer complains about 5.1 data dir during 5.5 install
Submitted: 15 Sep 2011 9:40 Modified: 8 Nov 2012 4:01
Reporter: Daniël van Eeden Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL for Windows: Installer Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:1.0.20.0 OS:Windows (Windows 7 SP1, XP 32-bit)
Assigned to: Javier Rivera Zavala CPU Architecture:Any

[15 Sep 2011 9:40] Daniël van Eeden 
Description:
Installing 5.5 with the installer complains about the datadir of a previously installed 5.1 install.

The 5.1 datadir is C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\Data
The 5.5 datadir is C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\Data

How to repeat:
Install 5.1 
Install 5.5 with installer
[15 Sep 2011 9:40] Daniël van Eeden 
Screenshot

Attachment: Installer_55_datadir.png (image/png, text), 179.72 KiB.
[15 Sep 2011 9:45] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for the bug report. I've seen the same problem yesterday on 32-bit Windows XP.
[23 Apr 2012 19:54] Javier Rivera Zavala 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the next release.

If necessary, you can access the source repository and build the latest available version, including the bug fix. More information about accessing the source trees is available at

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/installing-source.html
[8 Nov 2012 4:01] Philip Olson 
This bug is fixed as of Installer version 1.1.3. The changelog entry reads as follows:

        MySQL 5.5 would fail to install properly if MySQL 5.1 was
        already installed. It would report that the
        "datadir" of a previously installed MySQL 5.1
        installation conflicted with the MySQL 5.5
        "datadir", and would require the user to define an
        alternative directory path.

Thank you for the bug report.