Crash!!! -- Permission Error

[Squirrel]

I'm currently re-installing db41 port.  Earlier using  'innodb_force_recovery = 6' seemed to fix that PANIC error.  But I don't understand this permission error.  I've tried various permissions as well 777, 766, 666, 760, etc etc.  I've also ran mysqld_safe as root user, but with same permission error.  Also tried different directories without luck.

When I log in to the server shell, it won't chroot me to my home directory.  Instead it puts me in '/' with error message "no .bash_login.  And when I log out I get message "no .bash_logout".  I've never had these files in any of my users' directories.  Another strange thing just discovered is IE or FireFox display "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server", on all web sites.

So it seems that I have permission problem globally not just within MySQL.  What can possibly cause this permission problem?  Hard drive corruption?


-----Original message-----
From: "Daniel O'Connor" doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:39:30 -0600
To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Crash!!!

> On Thursday 19 March 2009 08:52:18 Squirrel wrote:
> > My webserver was working just fine on FreeBSD 6.2 Apache 2.2.11, MySQL
> > 5.0.27.  All of sudden MySQL quit and won't start.  At the same time when
> > logged in using SSH, it's looking for .bash_login and .bash_logout which it
> > never did before, and will not chroot to user's home.
> >
> > Trying to manual start mysql causes:
> >
> > 090318 17:09:52  mysqld started
> > 090318 17:09:52  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 2 2195718579
> > 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  /home/mysql: Permission denied
> > 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  /home/mysql/log.0000000001: Permission denied
> > 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  PANIC: Permission denied
> > 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
> > database recovery 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  fatal region error
> > detected; run recovery 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] bdb:  /home/mysql:
> > Permission denied
> > 090318 17:09:52 [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to
> > file '/home/mysql/webserver.isot.com.pid' (Errcode: 13) 090318 17:09:52
> > [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 090318
> > 17:09:52  mysqld ended
> >
> > I tried db_recover, but it's not found.  HELP!!!
> 
> There are db_recover tools installed with BDB but they're called db41_recover 
> or db_recover-4.2 etc.
> 
> The other error is that it doesn't appear to be able to write to /home/mysql 
> but in your next email the perms look OK (well they are bad because 777 is 
> insecure but they won't result in permission denied)
> 
> -- 
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