From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 27 2: 1:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14401.mail.yahoo.com (web14401.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46C1537B405 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from egodim@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20010627090142.95132.qmail@web14401.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.66.98.42] by web14401.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:01:42 BST Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:01:42 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?d=20t?= Subject: Re: debug screen To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3B373A62.2B73B27F@iowna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Indeed, that was the problem! In my /etc/hosts the loopback address was set as: ::1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com instead of the correct: ::1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com mydomain.com 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.mydomain.com mydomain.com I made the addition and MySQL server installed with no complaints :) Thanks, Bill! --- Bill Moran wrote: > I'd guess he's hitting up against a hostname > problem. MySQL won't > install if it can't figure out the hostname of the > system. Installing > from source won't make any difference. Installing > from a command like > (using the ports, pkg_add or source) will present > you with error > messages that will indicate the problem. > Before doing anything else, make sure your > /etc/hosts file is set up > properly. Once that's done, MySQL will install by > whatever means you > choose. > > -Bill > > Jason Nugent wrote: > > > > Dimitri, > > > > I've always had good luck building MySQL right > from the source, available > > on MySQL's website. > > > > http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html > > > > If you scroll down a bit, you'll find a link to > the tarred source file for > > 3.23.39. It 'configure's and 'make's just great > on a whole slew of > > different FreeBSD versions, including 4.3. > > > > I haven't tried installing off of the 4.3 CDs so I > can't really comment on > > that part. > > > > HTH, > > > > Jason > > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 7:58am, d t thought about > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to install MySQL-server from the > FreeBSD > > > 4.3 CDRoms but the installation procedure fails. > Then > > > I'm adviced to have a look at the "debug > screen". > > > > > > Pardon my stupid question but.. where can I > found > > > this? :) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dimitri > > -- > If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, > then what can I get for two hands in the bush? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message