MYSQL Install Problem Squeeze

[mrunkel]

I had this issue. In my case it was because skip-bdb was in my my.cnf and I kept my custom my.cnf instead of installing the distributed version.

Removing it allows the server to start.

Berkeley DB is no longer in 5.1x, so the option doesn't apply any more, but why the mysql developers halt startup upon seeing this now deprecated option instead of just logging and ignoring is beyond me.

[DerekM]

There was a glick found from install mythtv backend and frontend causing the same errors.. The solution was to do this

edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

and look for the line

bind address = 127.0.0.1

and comment that line out

#bind address =127.0.0.1
Reboot
I hope this applies to you as well...