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[Jonas Norlander]

On 16 February 2010 11:33, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to start the MySQL server executable it fails like this:
>
> dotancohen at dcl:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
> [sudo] password for dotancohen:
> 100216 12:36:01 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/dcl.lower-test
> 100216 12:36:01 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/dcl.lower-test
> /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysql/' (Errcode: 2)
> 100216 12:36:01 [ERROR] Aborting
>
> 100216 12:36:01 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Shutdown complete
>
> dotancohen at dcl:~$
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

Is there a reason you starting it with root permissions? On my machine
the command line is:
$ ps ax | grep my
 3277 ?        Sl     0:06 /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi
--defaults-file=/home/jonas/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf
--datadir=/home/jonas/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
--socket=/home/jonas/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket

Trying to run mysqld-akonadi as root or my user gives same error as yours.
>From the error in your post it looks like the database is locked.
Perhaps another mysql process has already started?
I would try to creat a new user, log in as that user and see if
akonadi works there, if thats the case it could be a configure error
for your user.

/ Jonas