mysql server was not always working properly in chroot within install_db_chroot.sh

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/abs/core-testing/LinHES-config-svn/install_db_chroot.sh b/abs/core-testing/LinHES-config-svn/install_db_chroot.sh
index f187ba8..6dcbfd5 100755
--- a/abs/core-testing/LinHES-config-svn/install_db_chroot.sh
+++ b/abs/core-testing/LinHES-config-svn/install_db_chroot.sh
@@ -11,11 +11,19 @@ echo "install_db_chroot hostname is $hostname"
 . $MV_ROOT/bin/install_functions.sh
 #myhost=`cat /etc/hostname`
 
+# Before this script is called, the mysqld that facilitated the installation is killed.
+# We need to make sure to stop and start the mysqld that will be used post-install so
+# that the database can be initialized.
+
+/etc/rc.d/mysqld stop
+/etc/rc.d/mysqld stop
+/etc/rc.d/mysqld start
+
 # Put a limit on how many times we try to (re-)start MySQL
 success_test() {
     # parameter: number of tries to start mysqld so far
     PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/sbin/mysqld`
-    if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
+    if [ -z "$PID" ]; then # mysqld isn't running
 	if [ $1 -gt 3 ]; then
 	    echo "ERROR: Failed to start MySQL server in $1 attempts."
 	    sleep 5
@@ -24,9 +32,11 @@ success_test() {
 	    echo "Tried $1 time(s) to start MySQL server." 
 	    return 1
 	fi
-    else
+    else # mysqld is running
 	return 0
     fi
+    # should never get here
+    return 1
 }
 
 mysqld_tries=0