Bug 523280

Summary:	dev-db/mysql-init-scripts - /etc/init.d/mysql mentions /usr/bin/mysql_install_db but it is installed at /usr/share/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	edoceo <code>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux MySQL bugs team <mysql-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description edoceo 2014-09-20 05:11:17 UTC

Doing a fresh install of dev-db/mysql-5.5.39

Then I ran the MySQL init script.

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~ # /etc/init.d/mysql restart
 * Starting mysql ...
 * You don't appear to have the mysql database installed yet.
 * Please run /usr/bin/mysql_install_db to have this done...
 * ERROR: mysql failed to start
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But there is no /usr/bin/mysql_install_db

The script is actually in 

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~ # locate mysql_install_db
/usr/share/man/man1/mysql_install_db.1.bz2
/usr/share/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db
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I then had to manually run it like this:
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/usr/share/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr
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To get it to work, if I leave off the --basedir option then the script cannot find things like my_print_defaults

Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-21 14:35:14 UTC

You should not call this script directly.

The post-install message of mysql and other providers is to run 'emerge --config'

The message will be corrected in the next init scripts stable.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491348 ***