mysql51-server won't start after upgrade

[Jeffrey Williams]

Mike Andrews wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded mysql51-server with cvsup and portupgrade.
>>
>> Now it won't start, and the error I am getting is:
>> [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 
>> 'innodb_log_arch_dir=/var/db/mysql/'
>>
>> I have been scanning the release notes, but I haven't found anything 
>> yet, that indicates that this variable has been deprecated, and it 
>> still appears in the example my.cnf files.
>
> I ran into this last week, too.
>
> I had to poke around in the InnoDB source for this (as far as I can 
> tell this isn't documented anywhere), but apparently 
> innodb_log_group_home_dir has superceded innodb_log_arch_dir since 
> 4.0, so just change the latter to the former and everything works.
>
Hi Mike,

Thanks very much, that did the trick.

Jeff