Comment 6 for bug 359341

This bug is still present in version 1.2. Consider the following:

ddb@db-62:~/wangwei/tools/xtrabackup-1.2/bin$ ./innobackupex-1.5.1 --defaults-file=/home/ddb/wan
gwei/db-36-2/db-36-2.cnf --user=root --ibbackup=/home/ddb/wangwei/tools/xtrabackup-1.2/bin/xtr
abackup /mnt/ddb/2/db-36-2-bak
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 14.12 Distrib 5.0.38, for pc-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
innobackupex-1.5.1: Using mysql server version Copyright (C) 2002 MySQL AB
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