Bug #62970 MySQL Installer, Samples and Examples 5.5.15 configuration fail
Submitted: 27 Oct 2011 14:55 Modified: 14 Dec 2011 16:02
Reporter: jens odborg Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5 .16 OS:Windows (7)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[27 Oct 2011 14:55] jens odborg
Description:
Select all the defaults until configuration
but disable TCP/IP Networking and Windows Service

when confiugration fails
I try to run mysqld manual

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin>mysqld --defaults-file=..\my-small.ini --standalone --console
111027 16:32:27 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111027 16:32:28 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111027 16:32:28 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111027 16:32:28 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111027 16:32:28 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111027 16:32:28 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: The first specified data file .\ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
111027 16:32:28  InnoDB: Setting file .\ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
111027 16:32:29  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
111027 16:32:29  InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active.
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
111027 16:32:29  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111027 16:32:30 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 0
111027 16:32:36 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111027 16:32:36 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Seems to bee running OK
press Try again in installer but it still fails:

mysql-server-5.5-win32:6 - Looking for valid template
mysql-server-5.5-win32:13 - Found valid template.
mysql-server-5.5-win32:20 - Attempting to process template.
mysql-server-5.5-win32:26 - Processed template.
mysql-server-5.5-win32:100 - Product configuration controller finished configuration.
examples-5.5:10 - Checking if there are any features installed that need configuration.
examples-5.5:100 - Unable to configure as the server product in our catalog is not running
examples-5.5:100 - Product configuration controller finished configuration.
examples-5.5:100 - Unable to configure as the server product in our catalog is not running
examples-5.5:100 - Product configuration controller finished configuration.
examples-5.5:100 - Could not open connection to database
examples-5.5:100 - Product configuration controller finished configuration.
examples-5.5:100 - Could not open connection to database
examples-5.5:100 - Product configuration controller finished configuration.

How to repeat:
See Description

Suggested fix:
Don't know
[27 Oct 2011 15:04] jens odborg
but now  installer can complete here is log file

Attachment: MySQL installer log.txt (text/plain), 336.98 KiB.

[14 Nov 2011 16:02] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. Could you please provide the my.ini file created in the install process. Thanks.
[15 Dec 2011 7:00] Bugs System
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".