mySQL YUM Bug

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Keiran Smith wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>   When I install mySQL via YUM and do service mysqld start it fails to install the default tables. I believe this bug was
> fixed in the latest mySQL Version and was wondering when would this be added to the repo.
> 
> mySQL Version from YUM
> 
> [root at moviedb ~]# mysql --version
> mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.35, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) using readline 5.1
> 
> When starting service
> [root at moviedb ~]# service mysqld start
> Initializing MySQL database:  Installing MySQL system tables...
> ERROR: 1004  Can't create file '/tmp/#sql2514_1_0.frm' (errno: 13)
> 090716  8:20:50 [ERROR] Aborting
> 
> 090716  8:20:50 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 2 plugins
> 090716  8:20:50 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete
> 
> The latest stable build of mySQL is 6.0
>

A couple of minor things:

1. you don't have to capitalize 'yum'
2. I'm reasonably certain this has absolutely nothing to do with yum.

good luck.
-sv