I an running Slackware with the 2.4.5 kernel on a Dual PII system. I have run mySQL versions from 3.20.something to 3.23.29 (or so) under kernels from 2.0x-2.2.19 with no real problems. I always compile from source when possible.

I have down;oaded the mysql source tarballs for 3.23.44 and 4.0 alpha and have configured and compiled with and without Innodb support using different installation directories and compile flags (my regular set and the recommended set from the Installation hints). I run as root with no mySQL password (single user development).

The problem appears after running the mysql_install_db script. When I attempt to start the server using mysql.server or safe_mysqld it starts and shuts down immediately. In the var directory I find

mojo.index mojo-bin.001 mojo.err

for my server (named mojo)

The error file message is always the same (/usr/local/mysql and /local/mysql are the paths I have tried using, shifting to a different disk in case I had bad sectors I didn't know about)

e.g.

011111 04:07:36 mysqld started \a/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: File './mojo-bin.1' not found (Errorcode: 13) 011111 4:07:36 Could Not use mojo-bin for logging (error13)

and then additional lines with similar messages about not being able to create or write or find : the pid file or the frm file or the Innodb data file, etc

and then it ends politely.

The err file is in the correct place, so I can't imagine I have a permissions problem as root.

I was wondering if anyone can help with this.

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