On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009, Craig White wrote: > >On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 16 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> >On Monday 16 February 2009 20:27:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >> No package webmin available. > >> >> Nothing to do > >> > > >> >I don't think I've ever had webmin from a distro package, but it installs > >> > so easily from the website. > >> > > >> >Anne > >> > >> I found it, installed it, let it do its updates, but a scan for servers > >> doesn't find mysql cuz it is not running and now won't run. > >> > >> I had NDI this was going to such a PIMA, but a friend has mythtv running > >> at his place and it does everything but fix breakfast. > >> > >> If anyone has any idea how to reset this SOB to absolutely square one, > >> never having been run, please advise. Deleting /var/lib/mysql didn't do > >> it. > > > >---- > >you don't delete /var/lib/mysql > >you delete /var/lib/mysql/* > > > >mkdir /var/lib/mysql > >chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql > >service mysqld start > > I got to here ^^^ and selinux stuck up its hand & waved at me. > SELinux is preventing mysqld (mysqld_t) "create" to mysql.sock (var_lib_t). > > And recommended I run restorecon -v 'mysql.sock', but: > [root@coyote rpms]# restorecon -v 'mysql.sock' > restorecon: stat error on mysql.sock: No such file or directory > > So I go back to the top of the list above and repeat, apparently forever cuz I > get the same thing when I restart mysqld. > > Now, since mysql.sock doesn't exist, because it can't create it, therefore > restorecon can't do anything about it, WTH do I do next? > > So I located the old one in the database, touched a new one, then > 'chown mysql:mysql mysql.sock;restorecon -v mysql.sock' No errors reported. > But, a 'service mysqld start' eventually fails. And now the selinux count is > plus 2 cuz I tried it twice. > > So how do we fix YAMYSQLFSCKUP? ---- ignoring that the person whining is the one who deleted the directory in the first place, it should have been obvious to you that you needed to also restore the security contexts on /var/lib/mysql when you recreated it. Are you having a good time blaming everything else for your troubles? There are millions of people running mysql without your issues. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
