MySQL Forums
Forum List  »  Character Sets, Collation, Unicode

Advanced Search
New Topic

Error starting service because collation is not valid for character set.
Posted by: Jason Storer
Date: March 09, 2011 12:11PM

Hi. I'm getting this error when attempting to start the mysqld service on a RHEL5 server. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks! -Jason

mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.54, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1


110309 12:24:07 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
110309 12:24:07 [ERROR] COLLATION 'utf8_unicode_ci' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'
110309 12:24:07 [ERROR] Aborting
110309 12:24:07 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete
110309 12:24:07 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/2011 12:14PM by Jason Storer.

Navigate: Previous Message• Next Message
Options: Reply• Quote


Subject
Views
Written By
Posted
Error starting service because collation is not valid for character set.
6576
Jason Storer
March 09, 2011 12:11PM
Re: Error starting service because collation is not valid for character set.
2456
Peter Brawley
March 09, 2011 12:58PM
Re: Error starting service because collation is not valid for character set.
2511
Jason Storer
March 09, 2011 01:20PM


Sorry, you can't reply to this topic. It has been closed.

Content reproduced on this site is the property of the respective copyright holders. It is not reviewed in advance by Oracle and does not necessarily represent the opinion of Oracle or any other party.