[Digikam-devel] Bug#673161: Starting mysqld in a chroot

[Francesco Riosa]

Il 18/05/2012 08:21, Arnold Metselaar ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I was mistaken in my previous message.  Generating a decent /etc/mtab with the line
>
> grep "${CHROOT_PATH}" /etc/mtab | sed -e "s:${CHROOT_PATH}/\?:/:">"${CHROOT_PATH}/etc/mtab"
>
> in /etc/schroot/setup.d/99mini-buildd helped get rid of warnings from df,
> but mysqld was trying to start without it as well.
>
> Mysqld tries to bind to a port at start-up, and fails when another mysqld outside the chroot is already
> bound to that port. When mysqld is not running in the host machine, it starts in a chroot just fine.
> It should also work when mysqld in the host is listening on a non-standard port.
>
> Regards,
> Arnold

Dunno how this reached digikam mailing list but you can start mysql 
without networking with the following in my.cnf:

[mysqld]
skip-networking

or starting mysqld with --skip-networking option

or at your pleasure change port (usually 3307) with:
[mysqld]
port = 3307