Comment 35 for bug 973951

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rsteinmetz70112 (rob-steinmetznet) wrote :

This weekend I upgraded another server with the same result as above. I was able to work around it by

#mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.orig
#mkdir /var/lib/mysql
#chmod /var/lib/mysql to match mysql.orig
#chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql
#mv /var/lib/mysql.orig/mysql /var/lib/mysql/mysql
#start mysql

There is apparently some problem with one or more of the files in /var/lib/mysql.orig restarting mysql creats new one which work fine.

Once I did this I was able to move the old mysql tables in subdirectories of /var/lib/mysql with out any problems.

I hope this helps someone.