On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote:
> On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote:
> > On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote:
> >> I stop apach& mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then restart them
> >> both. Haven't had problems since.
> > 
> > I tried it that way:
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
> > /etc/init.d/mysql stop
> > emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world
> > emerge --depclean
> > revdep-rebuild
> > /etc/init.d/mysql start
> > /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> > 
> > Still the same: databases are gone, mysql is empty. Only users
> > are there. This is strange: how can updating mysql from one stable
> > version to higher stable cause complete loss of databases???
> > 
> > Jarry
> 
> IIRC the default my.cnf changed for the worse in Gentoo's 5.1.x ebuild.
> Try making a copy of your original my.cnf and put it into place once
> you've upgraded. Else you may need to modify the mysql home and data
> paths in the new my.cnf to reflect where the database are actually
> installed.

I just updated to mysql-5.1.50-r1  on a x86 box, ran revdep-rebuild which 
amidst others rebuilt apache and php and all is good now.  dispatch-conf 
updated only a couple of lines on the config file.

The default paths were not affected on any of the 5 mysql databases I'm 
running currently.
-- 
Regards,
Mick