[TriLUG] Need Help with mysql start up on opensuse 12.1

[Paul Boyle]

Hi Glenn,


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Glenn Hennessee <glenn.hennessee at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Apparently it can be done from cpio'd data, at least according to
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-34545.html
>


Thanks for the link.  I uninstalled mysql and reinstalled it (after
deleting my old directory structure).  Now I have to see if I can get the
old database contents back in.


> although mention was made of using a different version of mysql than
> originally perhaps being an issue. mysqldump is definitely the
> preferred backup method but I recall you having a problem with that
> under the version of suse you were running.
>


Yeah, opensuse had disabled the documented behavior of the -p<password>
option so that you had to type in the password interactively rather than
having it included on the command line.  Sigh.

Paul

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