Need your help on starting 5.0.24 on a Solaris 9 system.

Installed it from mysql-standard-5.0.24-solaris9-sparc-64bit.pkg,
then ran scripts/mysql_install_db but after that bin/mysqld_safe quits


I see that "data/myhost.err" has the following message:
[ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
'mysql.host' doesn't exist

For /etc/my.cnf, I used the sample my-huge.cnf and uncommented the
InnoDB lines.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Here are the relevant output:

$ uname -a
SunOS myhost 5.9 Generic_117171-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MP

$ bin/mysqld_safe
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /opt/mysql/mysql/data
STOPPING server from pid file /opt/mysql/mysql/data/myhost.pid
070109 18:59:16 mysqld ended

$ ls -la data
total 41020
drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 512 Jan 9 18:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root bin 512 Jan 9 18:16 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Jan 9 18:18 ib_logfile0
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Jan 9 18:18 ib_logfile1
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 10485760 Jan 9 18:18 ibdata1
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql root 1025 Jan 9 18:18 myhost.err
drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 512 Jan 9 18:16 mysql
drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 512 Jan 9 18:16 test

btw, data/mysql and data/test are empty directories

$ pkginfo -l mysql
PKGINST: mysql
NAME: MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)
CATEGORY: application
ARCH: sun4u
VERSION: 5.0.24
BASEDIR: /opt/mysql
VENDOR: MySQL AB
PSTAMP: MySQL AB Build Engineers
INSTDATE: Jan 09 2007 18:15
EMAIL: EMAIL REMOVED
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 1693 installed pathnames
54 directories
100 executables
183787 blocks used (approx)

$ cat data/myhost.err
070109 18:18:51 mysqld started
InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
070109 18:18:51 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
070109 18:18:52 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...
070109 18:18:53 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: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
070109 18:18:54 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0
070109 18:18:54 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege
tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
070109 18:18:54 mysqld ended


--- begin /etc/my.cnf, from my-huge.cnf --------------------
# Example MySQL config file for very large systems.
#
# This is for a large system with memory of 1G-2G where the system runs
mainly
# MySQL.
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is /usr/local/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be p***ed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#p***word = your_p***word
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 384M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 512
sort_buffer_size = 2M
read_buffer_size = 2M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 8M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
thread_cache_size = 8
query_cache_size = 32M
# Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency
thread_concurrency = 8

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security
enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named
pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking

# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
log-bin=mysql-bin

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
# but will not function as a master if omitted
server-id = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)
#
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between
# two methods :
#
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -
# the syntax is:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,
# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_P***WORD=<p***word> ;
#
# where you replace <host>, <user>, <p***word> by quoted strings and
# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).
#
# Example:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,
# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_P***WORD='secret';
#
# OR
#
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method,
then
# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for
example
# if you mistyped the p***word in master-p***word and the slave
fails to
# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later
# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored
and
# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you
shutdown
# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver
server.
# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched
# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)
#
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1
# (and different from the master)
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set
# but will not function as a slave if omitted
#server-id = 2
#
# The replication master for this slave - required
#master-host = <hostname>
#
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting
# to the master - required
#master-user = <username>
#
# The p***word the slave will authenticate with when connecting to
# the master - required
#master-p***word = <p***word>
#
# The port the master is listening on.
# optional - defaults to 3306
#master-port = <port>
#
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended
#log-bin=mysql-bin

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
#tmpdir = /tmp/
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables
#bdb_cache_size = 384M
#bdb_max_lock = 100000

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
innodb_data_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:2000M;ibdata2:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_group_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
innodb_log_arch_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 384M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 20M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
innodb_log_file_size = 100M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 256M
sort_buffer_size = 256M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 256M
sort_buffer_size = 256M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

--- end /etc/my.cnf, from my-huge.cnf ---------------------

On 2007-01-10, Easy User <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Installed it from mysql-standard-5.0.24-solaris9-sparc-64bit.pkg, then
> ran scripts/mysql_install_db but after that bin/mysqld_safe quits

[ ... ]

> I see that "data/myhost.err" has the following message:
> [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
> 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

> btw, data/mysql and data/test are empty directories

If the mysql.host table doesn't exist and the mysql subdirectory is
empty, I get the suspicion the mysql_install_db script did not run
correctly. What output did it give and can you try running it again?

--
Riemer Palstra Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EMAIL REMOVED http://www.palstra.com/

Thanks for your message.

The mysql_install_db did not show any error.

But instead of trying it again with the same version, I removed
the package, downloaded the pre-packaged 5.0.27 from sunfreeware.com,
installed it and the new mysqld is now up and running.

Thanks again.

Riemer Palstra wrote:
> On 2007-01-10, Easy User <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> > Installed it from mysql-standard-5.0.24-solaris9-sparc-64bit.pkg, then
> > ran scripts/mysql_install_db but after that bin/mysqld_safe quits
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > I see that "data/myhost.err" has the following message:
> > [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table
> > 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
>
> > btw, data/mysql and data/test are empty directories
>
> If the mysql.host table doesn't exist and the mysql subdirectory is
> empty, I get the suspicion the mysql_install_db script did not run
> correctly. What output did it give and can you try running it again?
>
> --
> Riemer Palstra Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> EMAIL REMOVED http://www.palstra.com/