----- Original Message ----- From: "William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql > > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:38 +0100, Duncan wrote: >> Obantec Support wrote: >> > >> > >> > rpm -qa | grep mysql >> > mysql-5.0.45-7.el5 >> > is installed >> > >> Yum install mysql-server > > That makes me think OP did a yum install mysql instead of a yum group > install. Per the output in my previous post, default packages for the > *group* include mysql-server. If my assumption is correct, he'll > probably hit more stumbling blocks, depending on what he's doing > ultimately, as other parts of a default install will likely be missing > too. Might be better to unstall (that *ought* to be a valid word, huh? > Would save typing. :-) and do a group install to get a good starting > point. > >> >> Dunc >> <snip sig stuff> > > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi as i originally posted i did not install Mysql, i just did a default boot install of the CentOS DVD iso. seems 1 package of MySql was installed mysql-5.0.45-7.el5. i followed the advice to yum mysql-server and now its up and running. (yum got 1 dependence Perl-DBD) thanks to all who replied. Mark