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From: Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:00:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009012200.16350.mailingdotlist@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008311931.08748.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 20:30:55 Mick wrote:
> > But this is apparently not the proper way, because after
> > restarting the server, apache does not show my web-page
> > reporting there is no such a database. I checked it with
> > phpmyadmin, and really, there is absolutely no database
> > in mysql!
> > 
> > I quickly restored backup version which I have done just
> > before trying mysql-update, so my web-site is up and running.
> > Now I would like to update mysql the right way, I but do not
> > know how to do it...
> 
> Hi Jarry,
> 
> Some years ago I ran into some similar problem, I can't recall exactly
> what. Lost in folklore (wiki?) were some instructions to first stop mysql
> before you update it and I have been following them since.
> 
> I stop apach & mysql, run the update,  dispatch-conf and then restart them
> both.  Haven't had problems since.
> 
> There may be a better way for doing this - in which case others who know
> better will hopefully chime in.

I'm curious as well. Imo it shouldn't be necessary to stop mysql server for 
each update.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 17:32 [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50? Jarry
2010-08-31 18:30 ` Mick
2010-09-01 20:00   ` Aniruddha [this message]
2010-09-01 20:15     ` Mick
2010-09-01 21:05       ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-01 21:05       ` Dale
2010-09-01 21:18         ` Alex Schuster
2010-09-01 21:25           ` Tanstaafl
2010-09-01 21:38             ` Mick
2010-09-02  9:55               ` Dale
2010-09-02 18:09                 ` Mick
2010-09-01 22:45             ` Alex Schuster
2010-09-01 23:09               ` Dale
2010-09-02  5:10     ` kashani
2010-09-02 18:12       ` Mick
2010-09-03  3:40         ` kashani
2010-09-04  5:53   ` Jarry
2010-09-04 21:43     ` kashani
2010-09-04 22:30       ` Mick
2010-09-05  9:29         ` Mick
2010-09-05 10:08           ` Mick

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