On 02/13/2014 08:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: >> >> I have a strange problem. >> >> I installed cacti, and set it up. >> >> When I click on the Plugins Management, I noticed Error >> "FATAL: Database or Table does not exist" >> >> Further testing revealed that at the moment MySQL can not create >> temporary files in /tmp. It is same for ANY database! >> >> SELinux is disabled. >> I logged to mysql as root and error is same. >> >> Command used is: >> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin_temp_table LIKE bak_menu; >> >> >> Error is: >> ERROR 1004 (HY000): Can't create file '/tmp/#sql21f8_f3_0.frm' (errno: 9) >> >> What could be the problem, any idea how to proceed? > > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60574 > The error may be on the source of the copy (bak_menu.frm) not in tmp. > This is interesting. I tested on cacti database and on 2 Joomla databases with same results. But there might be something there. Database changed mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin_temp_table LIKE jos_menu; ERROR 1004 (HY000): Can't create file '/tmp/#sql21f8_f3_1.frm' (errno: 9) mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE barney (SELECT * FROM jos_menu WHERE 1=0); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugintest LIKE jos_menu; ERROR 1004 (HY000): Can't create file '/tmp/#sql21f8_f3_3.frm' (errno: 9) mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS barney LIKE jos_menu; Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec) Changed name of table to create produced result, but with warning. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant