Hey, just try tp copy the file to /tmp/ and than try to start the server?
/usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/tmp/mysql.conf --datadir=[...] maybe you have strange permission in one folder? But mysqld is runas normal <USERNAME> so if this user can read the file this should be enough. Does 5.5.23 somehow also limit the paths to load defaults- file from? Doesn't seems so from changelog https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-53.html Best regards, sandro -- Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2016, 12:51:59 CET schrieb Johannes Ranke: > When I run the same command using strace, I get > > ... > > getcwd("/home/USERNAME/.local/share/akonadi", 510) = 34 > stat("/home/USERNAME/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", > {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3486, ...}) = 0 > open("/home/USERNAME/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES > (Permission denied) > write(2, "Could not open required defaults"..., 84Could not open required > defaults file: /home/USERNAME/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf > ) = 84 > write(2, "Fatal error in defaults handling"..., 50Fatal error in defaults > handling. Program aborted > ) = 50 > exit_group(1) = ? > +++ exited with 1 +++
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