Comment 2 for bug 359341

This bug is still present in version 1.0. Consider the following:

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./innobackupex-1.5.1 --defaults-file=/home/gnarvaja/sandboxes/rsandbox_5_1_40/master/my.sandbox.cnf ../test/
Version string '' contains invalid data; ignoring: '' at ./innobackupex-1.5.1 line 1610.

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy.
All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.
           At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex-1.5.1
           prints "completed OK!".

innobackupex-1.5.1: Using mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.37, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
innobackupex-1.5.1: Using mysql server version Copyright 2000-2008 MySQL AB, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

sh: xtrabackup: not found
innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no 'mysqld' group in MySQL options
innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: OR no 'datadir' option in group 'mysqld' in MySQL options
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... but ...

[quote]
my_print_defaults --defaults_file=/home/gnarvaja/sandboxes/rsandbox_5_1_40/master/my.sandbox.cnf mysqld | grep datadir
--datadir=/home/gnarvaja/sandboxes/rsandbox_5_1_40/master/data
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