Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
This is the quick fix: edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf remove the line about network listening and then resave the file. start up mysqld as normal - it should work! Apparently a fixed version will appear very shortly. Matthew On 16 Dec 2000 00:54:37 -0500, Jens Gecius said: > Hi folks! > > This tim

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> Tried that, too. Still segfaulting and postinst doesn't work. Sorry, I forgot to mention my entire procedure. Here's exactly what I did: 1) I purged mysql-server. 2) This of course, left my /var/lib/mysql subdirectory intact. I then moved /var/lib/mysql to something like /var/lib/mysql.g

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and > > > >I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make > > sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstal

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and > >I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make > sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall > it would install perfectly. Not a slick solution

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> Actually, the postinst doesn't go through and I ran into that on my laptop. I found that purging the package (make sure you don't have it set to kill your databases!) and a clean reinstall it would install perfectly. Not a slick solution, but a working one... -- Regards,

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
sena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it: > > - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or > > - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line: > > skip-networking > > ...it shouldn't segfault now... > > >

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena
On 16/12/2000 at 17:02 +, sena wrote: > This is a known bug. There are two ways to solve it: > - Up/Downgrade to mysql-server 3.23.28-6 (which is working) or > - Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line: > skip-networking > ...it shouldn't segfault now... >

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread sena
On 16/12/2000 at 10:01 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > I found out, that mysqld is always seg-faulting. Even if I downgrade > via dpkg to 3.23.28-1 (this happened after upgrade to -7, actually, > package this was caused (everything else at that dist-upgrade went > well). > This is a known bug. There

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-16 Thread Jens Gecius
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks! > > This time I really need help on short term. > > After my last dist-upgrade tonight mysql-server is broken. It always > gets an error in the postinst script. I tried to get it manually to > work, I tried to dpkg -i the old version (my curren

mysql-server broken

2000-12-15 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks! This time I really need help on short term. After my last dist-upgrade tonight mysql-server is broken. It always gets an error in the postinst script. I tried to get it manually to work, I tried to dpkg -i the old version (my current version is -8), didn't work. I don't know what to do