From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 21:57:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EA31065674 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gandalf@shopzeus.com) Received: from shopzeus.com (135-shost.hostoffice.hu [195.228.74.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4DF8FC08 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shopzeus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45905889739C; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:49:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4D8E5F5E.9080104@shopzeus.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:49:18 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; hu; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John R. Levine" References: <20110326174100.1617.qmail@joyce.lan> <4D8E3CA4.8040808@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-shopzeus-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-shopzeus-MailScanner-ID: 45905889739C.A335B X-shopzeus-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-shopzeus-MailScanner-From: gandalf@shopzeus.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MySQL 3 needed but how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:57:08 -0000 > Sounds like you'll have to do some debugging. Try adding --verbose to > mysql_args in /etc/rc.conf, and see the other advice in > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/starting-server.html gw# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --verbose Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/mysql STOPPING server from pid file /var/db/mysql/gw.sznet.pid 110326 16:44:14 mysqld ended The data directory is correct. I don't understand why it is stopping immediatelly after startup. Trying the other way around (FreeBSD 6.4 on a virtual machine) > > It may be something really simple, like the mysql data directory not > being where the server expects it to be. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.