debugging mysqle -- anyone had success?

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
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> Edward Hades wrote:
>> On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:23:46 Kevin Funk wrote:
>>> See: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30994
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>>> Fix: --defaults-file must be the first option
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>> Hmm, I thought I fixed that on the wiki...
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> Also, it turns out my my.cnf is a 0-byte file.

This is on purpose IIRC.

> And I get this:
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> jeff at macncheese:~/.kde/share/apps/amarok$ mysqld
> - --default-storage-engine=MyISAM --datadir=`pwd`/mysqle
> - --socket=`pwd`/sock --skip-grant-tables
> 090315 17:59:36 [Warning] Can't create test file
> /home/jeff/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/macncheese.lower-test
> 090315 17:59:36 [Warning] Can't create test file

That command works for me. It looks like a permission problem? can you
touch  /home/jeff/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/macncheese.lower-test

Ian