From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 15:35:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D56E37B401 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from g3p1.peta.home ([24.176.255.95]) by femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011029233542.VDGF4194.femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com@g3p1.peta.home> for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:35:42 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:35:41 -0800 Subject: Re: MySQL Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) From: sabine225@home.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.472) 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 I just did this an hour ago. I got this messages" "In order to preserve your existing data, you should: - dump all your databases - kill mysql if it is running - delete the /var/db/mysql directory - run 'make install' - start up mysql - re-create all of your database - re-load your data" But I said, the heck with that. I just renamed /var/db/mysql to mysal.old and did make install and it worked. Note: It broke something just renaming mysql.old back to mysql. I had to copy the db directories one at a time for some reason. > A while back, I installed MySQL323-Client and > MySQL323-Server from the ports collection > on my FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE server at work. > > Without going into lengthy detail, I'll just say that > something went wrong with MySQL and I spent a > lot of time but couldn't fix the problem. Someone > told me to just reinstall MySQL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message