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Error Upgrading to MySQL 5
| Posted by patrickkonsor, 09-03-2008, 04:45 PM |
| I'm trying to upgrade to MySQL 5, but I received the following error: A MySQL server package (MySQL-server-4.1.11-0) is installed.
Thus I tried to erase that rpm..
So it seems I'm missing that file, which causes the erase to fail. Does anyone know anyway I can get around this?
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| Posted by datums, 09-03-2008, 04:47 PM |
| rpm -e MySQL-server-4.1.11-0
did you backup your db ?
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| Posted by patrickkonsor, 09-03-2008, 04:50 PM |
| Yes, I backed up my data.
Running that command has the same problem..
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| Posted by cywkevin, 09-03-2008, 05:04 PM |
| do rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
Last edited by cywkevin; 09-03-2008 at 05:09 PM.
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| Posted by patrickkonsor, 09-03-2008, 05:10 PM |
| Well that's what I had done to begin with, that's when I got the first error that MySQL 4.1.11 was installed, so I am trying to uninstall it..
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| Posted by patrickkonsor, 09-03-2008, 07:41 PM |
| I tried copying the mysql file from /usr/bin/mysql to /etc/init.d/mysql and it changed the error..
I don't know why it's giving the can't connect error since mysql is supposed to be stopped (which it is).
Last edited by patrickkonsor; 09-03-2008 at 07:45 PM.
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| Posted by foutrelis, 09-03-2008, 10:27 PM |
| Actually, scratch that. Try passing the --noscripts switch to rpm during the uninstallation:
rpm -e --noscripts --nodeps --allmatches MySQL-server
(What's described below is just a wild guess .-.)
First create a dumb script that will do nothing except exiting normally:
Then try your last command again (rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches MySQL-server).
Remember to delete this script before installing MySQL 5.
Last edited by foutrelis; 09-03-2008 at 10:35 PM.
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| Posted by patrickkonsor, 09-03-2008, 10:52 PM |
| Adding --noscripts actually solved the problem. Thanks a lot!
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