The start of the Mysql server fails and in the syslog the following error message is displayed:
Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld_safe[22878]: started Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: 100223 19:30:50 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: InnoDB: the directory. Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: InnoDB: File operation call: 'open'. Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld[22881]: InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. Feb 23 19:30:50 v21080422 mysqld_safe[22888]: ended
The problem is that the files required by MySQL have incorrect rights or incorrect user (groups). The following commands set the correct user 1).
chown -R mysql /var/run/mysqld chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql chown -R mysql /var/log/mysql chgrp -R root /var/run/mysqld chgrp -R adm /var/lib/mysql chgrp -R adm /var/log/mysql