Arieh
Verified User
I was just being very stupid to play with apt-get and mysql related stuff and broke my mysql.
Maybe for future reference:
- if you have an --skip-bdb or other error, it could mean that you have config file for a different mysql version. I found a skip bdb setting in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, which shouldn't be in a mysql 5.1 config file.
- try and see if /etc/mysql/my.cnf is the same as /etc/my.cnf, if not your probably want to make a symlink: ln -s /etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf (given that /etc/mysql/my.cnf was wrong and /etc/my.cnf has a newer config file without those error causing settings)
- Errors are displayed in an .err file, /home/mysql/yourservername.tld.err for example
Maybe for future reference:
- if you have an --skip-bdb or other error, it could mean that you have config file for a different mysql version. I found a skip bdb setting in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, which shouldn't be in a mysql 5.1 config file.
- try and see if /etc/mysql/my.cnf is the same as /etc/my.cnf, if not your probably want to make a symlink: ln -s /etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf (given that /etc/mysql/my.cnf was wrong and /etc/my.cnf has a newer config file without those error causing settings)
- Errors are displayed in an .err file, /home/mysql/yourservername.tld.err for example