Comments on: How to install MySQL 5.1 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 http://blogs.corenetworks.es/2009/09/how-to-install-mysql-on-opensolaris-2009-06/ Solaris, Opensolaris and Java Weblog Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John P http://blogs.corenetworks.es/2009/09/how-to-install-mysql-on-opensolaris-2009-06/comment-page-1/#comment-217 John P Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:54:27 +0000 http://blogs.corenetworks.es/?p=198#comment-217 Thanks for the writeup! One gotcha is that you need to be sure to do these steps after you "su root" and not via "pfexec ./mysql_install_db –-user=mysql" The latter will fail with "/usr/mysql/5.1/bin/mysqld: Too many arguments (first extra is '–-user=mysql')"... to recover, remove the /var/mysql/5.1/data directory, su root and rerun mysql_install_db ... Thanks for the writeup! One gotcha is that you need to be sure to do these steps after you “su root” and not via “pfexec ./mysql_install_db –-user=mysql” The latter will fail with “/usr/mysql/5.1/bin/mysqld: Too many arguments (first extra is ‘–-user=mysql’)”…

to recover, remove the /var/mysql/5.1/data directory, su root and rerun mysql_install_db …

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