I am running mysql-standard-4.0.20-pc-linux-i686 and mysql-standard-4.1.12-pc-linux-gnu-i686 on the same machine, installed binaries.
I had a heck of a time running both of these versions at once. And not for the typical reasons: port collision, sock file, etc… I have that all figured out, I should be able to run two versions of MySQL on the same machine. I am running 4.0 out of /usr/local/mysql and trying to run 4.1 out of /usr/local/mysql-4.1 and cannot get it working for the life of my, using the mysqld_safe script.
I kept getting this error when I would start MySQL 4.1:
050707 14:46:41 Fatal error: Can’t open privilege tables: File ‘/usr/local/mysql-4.1/share/mysql/charsets/?.conf’ not found (Errcode: 2)
050707 14:46:41 Aborting
050707 14:46:41 InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
050707 14:46:43 InnoDB: Shutdown completed
050707 14:46:43 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
Notice: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld (that’s not what my basedir is!, it’s “/usr/local/mysql-4.1”
Initially I had mysql 4.0 running at /usr/local/mysql/, and I thought I could get around the problem it by moving /usr/local/mysql to /usr/local/mysql-4.0, so that I don’t have a /usr/local/mysql directory, because seemed to be something in mysql that expected stuff to live at /usr/local/mysql, and I thought if that dir didnt’ exist, it may try to use my defined basedir instead. This philosophy failed brutally, I went around in circles and all I did was make my 4.0 instance stop working also.
Turns out, the problem is with mysqld_safe.
I was starting my 4.1 server server like this:
Code:
/usr/local/mysql-4.1/bin/mysqld_safe –defaults-file=/etc/my-4.1-1.cnf –max-connect-errors=10000 –user=mysql
and my /etc/my-4.1-1.cnf file looks like this:
Code:
basedir=/usr/local/mysql-4.1
datadir = /var/lib/mysql-4.1/1/data
port = 3406
socket = /tmp/mysql-4.1-1.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
table_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
server-id = 1
innodb_data_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql-4.1/1/tables
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_group_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql-4.1/1/logs
innodb_log_arch_dir = /var/lib/mysql-4.1/1/logs
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
innodb_log_file_size = 5M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50
All of my directories are in place an user and group owned by mysql, I followed the setup procedure in the INSTALL-BINARY very closely, and my workaround proves that there is nothing wrong with my installation, choice of directories, permissions, etc.
WORKAROUND:
My workaround is: using the same /etc/my-4.1-1.cnf file as above, start my server with mysqld instead of mysqld_safe, like this:
Code:
/usr/local/mysql-4.1/bin/mysqld –defaults-file=/etc/my-4.1-1.cnf –max-connect-errors=10000 –user=mysql > /var/lib/mysql-4.1/1/mysql-4.1-1.err 2>&1 &
and now it works just fine.
CONCLUSION: something is wrong with mysqld_safe that doesn’t allow it to work when the basedir is not /usr/local/mysql — can anybody find the problem and post a fix to mysqld_safe? It should be picking up default values from the defaults-file! Maybe it does when the defaults file is /etc/my.cnf ???? But I am using /etc/my.cnf for MySQL 4.0, so don’t tell me to make my conf file /etc/my.cnf — can’t (unless I change the conf file for the MySQL 4.0 instance – in which case I have the same problem with that file). My workaround is: don’t use mysqld_safe. My point is: what’s wrong with it, and can somebody fix it?
I have posted this as a bug to the MySQL website, it’ll be interesting to see what they say about it: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11800
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New experiment shows this bug is not easily reproduced:
I moved to a new machine that does not have MySQL on it at all, then did this:
Code:
cd /usr/local
tar -xzf src/mysql-standard-4.1.12-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz
ln -s mysql-standard-4.1.12-pc-linux-gnu-i686 mysql-41
cd mysql-41
/usr/sbin/groupadd mysql
/usr/sbin/useradd -g mysql mysql
scripts/mysql_install_db –user=mysql
chown -R root .
chown -R mysql data
chgrp -R mysql .
echo ‘[mysqld]basedir=/usr/local/mysql-41
datadir=/usr/local/mysql-41/data
port=3306
socket=/tmp/mysql-41.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer=16M
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=64
sort_buffer_size=512K
net_buffer_length=8K
read_buffer_size=256K
read_rnd_buffer_size=512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
server-id = 1′ > /etc/my-41.cnf
cd /
This command:
Code:
/usr/local/mysql-41/bin/mysqld_safe –defaults-file=/etc/my-41.cnf –user=mysql &
Produces:
Code:
/usr/local/mysql-41/bin/mysqld_safe: line 1: my_print_defaults: command not
found
/usr/local/mysql-41/bin/mysqld_safe: line 1: my_print_defaults: command not
found
The file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld doesn’t exist or is not executable
Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and restart
this script from there as follows:
./bin/mysqld_safe.
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqld_safe.html for more
information
–defaults-file=/etc/my-41.cnf –user=mysql
(Note: No error log was created.)
(Also note, this is not a bug, and not really relevant to the problem at hand, but worth mentioning. Also, it’s documented here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/unix-post-installation.html)
This command:
Code:
cd /usr/local/mysql-41
bin/mysqld_safe –defaults-file=/etc/my-41.cnf –user=mysql &
Produces:
Code:
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql-41/data
So, it works fine, as long as you cd to the /usr/local/mysql-41/ directory
first, then call bin/mysqld_safe. Works for me, experiment shows that the bug I encountered on my first machine is isolated to that machine.
So, I looked at my first machine to find out why it was so broken there and
discovered this:
Code:
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
Produced
Code:
MySQL-client-4.0.9-0
MySQL-devel-4.0.9-0
MySQL-Max-4.0.9-0
MySQL-shared-3.23.56-1.0.23
MySQL-4.0.9-0
Bunch of RPMs that I didn’t know where there and are not in use. So, I did a:
Code:
rpm -e MySQL-client-4.0.9-0 MySQL-devel-4.0.9-0 MySQL-Max-4.0.9-0
MySQL-shared-3.23.56-1.0.23 MySQL-4.0.9-0
Then I ran:
Code:
cd /usr/local/mysql-4.1
bin/mysqld_safe –defaults-file=/etc/my-4.1-1.cnf –max-connect-errors=10000
–user=mysql &
… and now it works fine! So, the problem has something to do with the
existence of one of those older RPMs.
Conclusion: there is still a bug with mysqld_safe, but it’s pretty hard to setup the conditions to cause it. You’ll need one or more of the above RPMs installed, and MySQL-4.1 in a non-standard location.
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