<html><body> I recently installed and experimented with RHEL6 beta 2. I've been having trouble getting MySQL to start from its init script. I'm not sure I have enough information to file a bug report yet, as I might have done something wrong in setting it up (I'm more familiar with Debian/Ubuntu, and on RHEL4 I used XAMPP rather than the RedHat MySQL package). However, here are the symptoms of my problem: With the stock init script, I just get "Starting MySQL server ... [FAILED]". Running <tt> mysqld_safe --user=mysql</tt> as root starts the server, with the following output; "/etc/init.d/mysqld stop" in a different terminal stops it fine: <tt>101019 19:14:35 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/log/mysqld.log'.</tt> <tt>101019 19:14:35 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql</tt> I edited the init-script to not send the output of "mysqld_safe" to /dev/null, and now this is what I get when I run it: <tt>101019 19:20:36 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/log/mysqld.log'.</tt> <tt>mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/mysql': File exists</tt> <tt>chown: cannot access `/var/lib/mysql': Permission denied</tt> <tt>chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/mysql': Permission denied</tt> <tt>101019 19:20:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql</tt> <tt>rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock': Permission denied</tt> <tt>101019 19:20:37 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended</tt> Has anyone else seen this kind of problem? I also have installed Oracle 11g on RHEL6 beta. It's a headless system (accessing by SSH+X11 from another system), but the installer runs "xdpyinfo", so I had to install package "xorg-x11-utils" and the libraries it depends on. It also took me a while to figure out why "tnsping" worked locally but not from another host. It was the firewall, of course, which I fixed by editing "/etc/sysconfig/iptables"; a comment in that file says it was written by "system-config-firewall", but no such program is installed; I guess "system-config-firewall-tui" is the equivalent for such a setup. -- <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"><td width="345" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">David Lee Lambert Software Developer IBM office ph# 517-391-5236 (T/L 596-5236) cell ph# 586-873-8813 member <a href="http://www.acm.org/">ACM</a>, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/greaterlansingjug">Lansing JUG</a>, <a href="http://detroit.pm.org/">Detroit.pm</a>, <a href="http://www.mdlug.org/">MDLUG</a> </td><td width="261" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">IBM Global Business Services Michigan Application Services Delivery Center 600 E Crescent Rd, Floor 2 East Lansing, MI 48823 </td></tr> </table> </body></html>