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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 4:52 pm    Post subject: mariadb help... Reply with quote

Mariadb just updated. dispatch-conf wanted to change my my.cnf and I foolishly let it. I've lost all my databases...

Yet ...

datadir = /var/lib/mysql

is correct

and the files are there.

What changed?

I have a lot of data in there...

Halp?

Update, I have a back up of the old my.cnf and nothing significant changed which is why I allowed it...

Code:
server /etc/mysql # diff -u /mnt/backup/etc/mysql/my.cnf my.cnf
--- /mnt/backup/etc/mysql/my.cnf        2018-07-28 22:16:46.616395084 -0700
+++ my.cnf      2018-09-21 23:24:28.202660077 -0700
@@ -7,34 +7,34 @@
 socket                                         = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
 
 [mysql]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [mysqladmin]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [mysqlcheck]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [mysqldump]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [mysqlimport]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [mysqlshow]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 default-character-set=utf8
 
 [myisamchk]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 
 [myisampack]
-character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
+character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mariadb/charsets
 
 # use [safe_mysqld] with mysql-3
 [mysqld_safe]
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 read_buffer_size                       = 256K
 read_rnd_buffer_size           = 512K
 myisam_sort_buffer_size        = 8M
-lc_messages_dir                        = /usr/share/mysql
+lc_messages_dir                        = /usr/share/mariadb
 #Set this to your desired error message language
 lc_messages                    = en_US
 


Yet, when I init mysql and run mysql, my databases are missing even though I can see them on the hard drive.

Update: now it's running fine. What changed? Nothing as far as I know...

But mythtv 28 is not compatible with this version and the version I need is gone from the repo... I guess it's up to me to get mythtv 29 working... except I tried and it wouldn't work...

crap. there goes my Saturday.
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