Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:11:54 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysqld startup issue Message-ID: <4FD66D2A.6070001@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <201206111948.q5BJmYoK019188@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201206111948.q5BJmYoK019188@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On 06/11/12 13:48, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Unfortunately, mysqld won't start: >> > [ sneck ] > >> 120611 10:55:52 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. > Have you tried doing what the error message _tells_ you to do ? nope, and yup nope, because the docs clearly state that the server needs to be running. yup, because I did it anyway just to see what it would do > If so, what happened? Unsurprisingly, it craps out saying it cannot connect to the server. problem was missing --datadir option when starting server
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