On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:01:40 +1000, Wes Barris <wes.barris@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Kovacik wrote: > > > Wes- > > > > This looks very close to the problem your having... > > > > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,7164,7164 > > > > Dan > > Bingo! > > It appears that SELinux is/was interfering with mysqld such that > mysqld was unable to access the necessary files. > > Doing this allowed me to start mysql: > > setenforce 0 > etc/init.d/mysqls start > > Now, I just have to figure out what SELinux is and how to > properly configure it to play nice with mysql. > Check into the fixfiles and restorecon commands. Sometimes when you are running SELinux, there is a chance that installing/upgrading packages may cause changes to the ACLs that will cause problems like this. It's very possibile that you can turn SELinux back on again, and then run: restorecon -R /var/lib/mysql And that may fix your ACLs -- David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
