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mysql-dfsg-5.1 package

  1. Bug #188334
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Comment 1 for bug 188334

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 188334] [NEW] installation broken when /tmp has insufficient permissions

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:08:42PM -0000, hehol wrote:
> I just tried to install mysql-server-5.0 on a Ubuntu 7.10 server which
> accidentally had wrong permissions on the /tmp directory (755, owned by
> root:root).

How come did this happen ?

> I suppose the problem is in the postinst script, which uses mktemp to
> create several temporary SQL scripts in /tmp. The postinst script does
> not verify if the temporary files have been created successfully. There
> isn't even a warning indicating that something went wrong while
> bootstrapping MySQL.

Seems reasonable to me.

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  importance wishlist

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