Bug 109951 – dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 ebuild doesn't create /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Henri 2005-10-20 13:51:27 UTC]

dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 ebuild doesn't create
directory: /var/log/mysql
and file: /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err

This prevents mysql startup.

After creating them manually everything was smooth.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -w"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/co
nfig/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi
/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -w"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 3dnowex X apache2 avi berkdb cjk crypt eds emacs emboss encode
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 i
magemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff memlimit mp3 mpeg
mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pdflib perl png 
python quicktime readline sdl session spell ssl tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales xml
2 xpm zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Michael Mauch 2005-10-20 14:29:46 UTC]

Same problem here while following
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml (which specifically mentions to
remove /var/log/mysql).

mkdir /var/log/mysql
chown mysql: /var/log/mysql

was enough to make mysql start again.

[Comment 2 Francesco R. (RETIRED) 2005-10-21 01:58:47 UTC]

bad bugfix reverted

[Comment 3 Oleg Frolov 2005-10-21 03:59:36 UTC]

I did
# cd /var/log
# mkdir mysql
# chown mysql:mysql mysql
# chmod 750 mysql
# /etc/init.d/mysql zap
# /etc/init.d/mysql start

only this did the trick

[Comment 4 Francesco R. (RETIRED) 2005-10-21 05:43:26 UTC]

Yes it's not very complicated but there are other things involved like:
- thrash left there from older installations
- usability for bin pkg

<roadmap>
these issued will be worked on this week-end (2005-10-22,23) 
together with different ones that are blocking 4.1.15 .

regards,
Francesco R.

[Comment 5 Francesco R. (RETIRED) 2005-10-22 07:34:56 UTC]

Fixed, some comment in Changelog