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  1. Bug #1594806
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1594806

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Farid UYAR (fuyar) wrote :

Hello,

I got the same issue when not using the default "/var/lib/mysql" directory as datadir.

I set the datadir in the my.cnf file to "/data/mysql" for example. Then start MySQL service and it gets stuck with the following error :

[ERROR] --initialize specified but the data directory has files in it. Aborting.

Problem is the "/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start pre" script creates a directory mysql in the datadir before launching the initialization. It should be totally empty with no files nor folders.

I have to comment out the folder creation in the pre script.