Replying to myself:

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:databases:install_mariadb_on_slackware

Is probably the order I had to do things. Note the changing of permissions.

Whether this has any relevance to your issue or not I don't know.

I'll be under my rock if you wish to ignore me.

Matt


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> On 18 Jul 2016, at 11:57, Matthew Melton <mjm@???> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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