Re: Cann not start server

[Ronald Fischer]

Peter Brawley Wrote:
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> > I have installed the Cygwin version of MySql
>
> Why that version?

Because this is the newest available for Cygwin (at least when you install it from the Cygwin repository).

> You'll need to navigate to the bin folder of the
> mysql installation to execute those commands.

Why????

>
> mysqld should be run with a defaults-file
> argument.

This argument is not recognized. I did the following:

cd /usr/sbin
./mysqld --defaults-file

and get the messages below. As you can see, "--defaults-file" is not recognized.

151106 8:41:57 [Note] ./mysqld (mysqld 5.5.45) starting as process 2664 ...
151106 8:41:57 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /var/lib/mysql/ is case insensitive
151106 8:41:57 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
./mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
151106 8:41:57 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
151106 8:41:57 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
151106 8:41:58 InnoDB: 5.5.45 started; log sequence number 1595675
151106 8:41:58 [ERROR] ./mysqld: unknown option '--defaults-file'
151106 8:41:58 [ERROR] Aborting

151106 8:41:58 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
151106 8:42:14 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675
151106 8:42:14 [Note] ./mysqld: Shutdown complete