Hello,

About 3 months ago I purchased two Mac Mini systems to use as MySQL EDB
servers (I might point out that I've been doing this for years with OS X
10.4/Tiger and it works really good).

The newest Macs came with OS X 10.5 Leopard. I was not able to downgrade the
OS to 10.4. At the time, there was no installer pkg of Mysql for 10.5 on the
mysql download site, so I compiled and installed myself on both servers.

That worked fine, until my users need some features that I had not compiled
in. Before recompiling I checked and thankfully, mysql.org now has a pkg for
10.5 - version mysql-5.0.51a-osx10.5-x86.dmg

I installed all the componants from the .dmg: Mysql Server, the StartupItem,
and the System Preferences add on.

All three installers were "successful" on both of the new systems.

However when I went to the System Preferences mysql pane, it would not start
mysql.

I checked /etc/hostconfig and MYSQLCOM=-YES- was already set.
I rebooted the Mac and mysql still wouldn't run.

I eventually discovered that the file /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM
does not exist on either system. In fact, /Library/StartupItems/ as well
as /System/Library/StartupItems/ are completely empty.

I am able to start and run the new mysql with the same plist that I was
formerly using for the mysql that I compiled:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

It bothers me that the StartupItem package installer is "bad". I'm worried
that if QA testing didn't catch a bug that obvious, maybe there will be other
bugs in the 10.5 mysql package.

I tailed the logs in /var/log while I was installing and did not see any
errors.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Or is the installer working fine for everyone else and just freaking out on my
two systems?


JW

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