On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:48:31AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > >This sounds like you have both the i386 package and the x86_64 package > >installed. > > For mysql package, that is perfectly OK. mysql.i386 has 32-bit libs, > mysql.x86_64 has 64-bit libs. > > /var/lib/mysql isn't part of mysql package. It's part of mysql-server > package. Therefore, uninstalling mysql package isn't likely to fix > anything. However, if David still wants to do it, the right option to > use is --allmatches (as documented in rpm man page). I got the RPMs uninstalled by specifying the full RPM spec, and using --nodeps: # rpm -e --nodeps mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.x86_64 mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386 # rpm -e mysql-server-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.x86_64 # rpm -ivh mysql-server-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.x86_64.rpm > Now, before doing anything drastic. David, do you have SELinux > running on the box? If so, is there anything logged in > /var/log/messages when you attempt to start MySQL? Also, it'd be > interesting to see output of "ls -lZd / /var /var/lib /var/lib/mysql". According to the /etc/selinux/config file, selinux is disabled. This is confirmed by getenforce. /var/log/messages shows little of interest: Oct 31 12:45:40 urquell2 mysqld: Initializing MySQL database: succeeded Oct 31 12:46:11 urquell2 mysqld: Starting MySQL: failed And the Z switch is obviously for selinux, so I'm not sure how interesting this is, but: [root at urquell2 ~]# ls -ld / /var /var/lib /var/lib/mysql drwxrwx--- 32 cvs 500 4096 Oct 30 16:40 / drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Oct 13 06:57 /var drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Oct 31 13:00 /var/lib drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Oct 31 13:00 /var/lib/mysql > > -- > NOTICE: If you are not intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that by reading this message you agreed not to disturb frogs during > mating season. For more info, visit http://www.8-P.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | Public Key: dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com/dave/gpg.html $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net 4C032504 Mystery attachment? http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/GPG -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061031/a8c0819a/attachment-0005.sig>