Replying to myself: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:databases:install_mariadb_on_slackware
Is probably the order I had to do things. Note the changing of permissions. Whether this has any relevance to your issue or not I don't know. I'll be under my rock if you wish to ignore me. Matt Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Jul 2016, at 11:57, Matthew Melton <m...@mjmworks.co.uk> wrote: > > > This sounds very familiar. Though I think I was using Slackware installing > from slack builds. My hand written notes say something about mysql_install_db > --user=... > Left the /var/lib/mysql/ with the wrong permissions. > Or something. > And something to do with running mysql_secure_installation instead. > > Maybe that might help. > > It's been a while. And due to the evidence of my handwriting I'm afraid I > appear to have been terribly, terribly, drunk. > > Cheers > > Matt > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <si...@gikaku.com> wrote: > >>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote: >>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_...@gnuinos.org): >>> >>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :) >>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike >>> (binary drop-in replacement). >>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ >> >> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb. >> >> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin 2>&1 | >> $ERR_LOGGER >> >> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is not >> really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I should >> report this to two package maintainers. >> >> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb. >> >> Simon >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <si...@gikaku.com> wrote: >> >>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote: >>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_...@gnuinos.org): >>> >>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :) >>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike >>> (binary drop-in replacement). >>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ >> >> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb. >> >> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin 2>&1 | >> $ERR_LOGGER >> >> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is not >> really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I should >> report this to two package maintainers. >> >> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb. >> >> Simon >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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