On Monday 16 February 2009, Daniel Fazekas wrote: >On Feb 17, 2009, at 00:32, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> 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). > >That chown step is unnecessary, since that is already done by the >mysqld init script. >Instead, add a restorecon in there: > >mkdir -p /var/lib/mysql >restorecon -r /var/lib/mysql >service mysqld start > Ok, then why does the troubleshooter tell me to uses a -v? All of which is I believe moot at this point, I had yum remove anything mysql or related, ran the updatedb util, then located and removed anything it left behind. Then I had yum put it all back in. The server daemon started just fine and I can apparently log into the mysql shell: [root@coyote mysql]# mysql -u root Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 5 Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> I am not going to do anything else now until I have a better handle on how to set it up for mythtv. What fried my grits way too well done was that no one had a clue as to how to actually fix it, nobody. That was the third time I'd had yum recycle the install, but the first time I had searched the system and nuked everything the removal left behind. About 30 hours I've been fighting with this. You aren't the Daniel I expected to answer, but never mind that, thank you. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. -- Wilson Mizner -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
