[CentOS] OFF Topic: mysql installation problem
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Feb 15 00:59:29 UTC 2008
Ed Morrison wrote:
> This is interesting:
>
> Locate shows this:
>
> [root at ftp ~]# locate mysql | less
> <snip>
>
>
> But listing the directories will not show the same files:
>
> [root at ftp ~]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/mysql
> total 8
> drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Dec 24 13:13 ..
> [root at ftp ~]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Dec 24 13:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Feb 14 11:44 ..
> drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 mysql
> drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 14 11:44 test
reboot and force fsck
touch /forcefsck && shutdown -r now
The only time I have ever experienced files not being where they are
suppose to be after a fresh install of a package is when the hard drive
was going south.
also try
rpm --verify
on the various mysql packages
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