I see, well I kinda thought that was a long shot and backed up the mysql data dirs in case. Trouble is, the data is for a bacula installation and the irony is ... well, its not there is no backup, or that a rebuild from the tapes isn't possible, just both are a real pain (last backup too old). If there was some way to repair the current ones it would be much better.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:

Am 24.11.2015 um 13:02 schrieb Carl Whalley:

I tried also the obvious, complete removal and reinstallation with the
same results :-(

package removal *never ever* would touch the datadir because if it would all your data inlcuding users and permissions would be gone and i doubt that any user would want that

if you are OK with lose the data because you have backups just purge the datadir at your own and run "mysql_install_db" to initalize it before restore your backups from dumpfiles

reinstall packages makes no sense, that's not windows, rpm packages make sure that every file with it's correct permissions and owners exists

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