myqsl dummy needs help
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Feb 17 18:46:44 UTC 2009
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> It's not quite that bad. You can reset by simply removing the contents
>> of /var/lib/mysql and starting the mysql service. If you have a
>> database to save, you can use --skip-grant-tables and resetting any
>> passwords that you require.
>
> I am glad that it worked for you. I did that 4 times, and each time the
> restart was foiled by selinux. Only a total, complete nuke job, cleaning up
> all the leftovers with rm, succeeded in making a fresh install work.
That is very likely because you removed /var/lib/mysql, and did not
"restorecon /var/lib/mysql" when you re-created it.
I'm also still curious how your /tmp got its permissions restricted.
Did you do that intentionally?
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