Re: Bug in the installation of MySQL 4.1.4

Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:21:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Sep 02, Bertrand Lanneau wrote:
> 
> Just to mention a bug. I have a workaround and it is thus not a problem 
> for me, but i hope it can help.
> 
> I've a crash when i tried to install MySQL 4.1.4 from the rpm on Linux (RedHat 8).
> Before the install, i only wrote my config file (my.cnf in attachment), and the
> command rpm -i MySQL-server-4.1.4-0.i386.rpm  crashed with the error messages
> that are following.
> Everything works fine if i remove my config file, install, stop the server, put my
> config file again and restart.
> I tracked a little more and find that the problem was caused by the line 
> default-table-type=innodb
> in my config file. If i comment just this line, everything works fine.

Thanks.

I changed the script that creates system tables during installation to
force MyISAM for these tables (as they don't work otherwise anyway). 

Regards,
Sergei

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