This sounds very familiar. Though I think I was using Slackware installing from slack builds. My hand written notes say something about mysql_install_db --user=...
Left the /var/lib/mysql/ with the wrong permissions.
Or something.
And something to do with running mysql_secure_installation instead.

Maybe that might help.

It's been a while. And due to the evidence of my handwriting I'm afraid I appear to have been terribly, terribly, drunk.

Cheers

Matt

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>> On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <simon@???> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_czr@???):
>>
>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :)
>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike
>> (binary drop-in replacement).
>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>
> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb.
>
> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin 2>&1 | $ERR_LOGGER
>
> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is not really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I should report this to two package maintainers.
>
> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb.
>
> Simon
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> On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <simon@???> wrote:
>
>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_czr@???):
>>
>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :)
>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike
>> (binary drop-in replacement).
>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>
> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb.
>
> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin 2>&1 | $ERR_LOGGER
>
> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is not really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I should report this to two package maintainers.
>
> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb.
>
> Simon
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> Dng@???
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