Can't start mysql on FC3

David Hoffman dhoffman2004 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 23:23:30 UTC 2005


On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:01:40 +1000, Wes Barris <wes.barris at csiro.au> wrote:
> Dan Kovacik wrote:
> 
> > Wes-
> >
> > This looks very close to the problem your having...
> >
> > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,7164,7164
> >
> > Dan
> 
> Bingo!
> 
> It appears that SELinux is/was interfering with mysqld such that
> mysqld was unable to access the necessary files.
> 
> Doing this allowed me to start mysql:
> 
> setenforce 0
> etc/init.d/mysqls start
> 
> Now, I just have to figure out what SELinux is and how to
> properly configure it to play nice with mysql.
> 

Check into the fixfiles and restorecon commands. Sometimes when you
are running SELinux, there is a chance that installing/upgrading
packages may cause changes to the ACLs that will cause problems like
this. It's very possibile that you can turn SELinux back on again, and
then run:

restorecon -R /var/lib/mysql

And that may fix your ACLs


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David
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