Fixing MySQL error 13 on Mac OS X 10.6.x
April 19th, 2010 in Code
I'm using XAMPP on Mac OS X 10.6.3.
Once I had to restore permissions and after that I started getting this error, every time I try to access InnoDB tables:
Can't create file '/var/folders/aX/aXYUzZmoHruKTlzkbVLQdU+++TM/-Tmp-/#sql10aac_1_0.frm' (errno: 13)
The problem was that my.cnf disappeared from the "/etc" folder, for some reason. This file should contain path to a MySQL temporary storage.
So, I performed the following simple steps to fix the issue:
1. Open Terminal
$ cd /etc
$ sudo nano my.cnf
Type this in:
[mysqld]
tmpdir=/usr/local/mysql/tmp
Control-X to save it.
Now go to /usr/local/mysql:
$ cd /usr/local/mysql
$ sudo mkdir tmp
$ sudo chown _mysql:wheel tmp
$ sudo chmod 755 tmp
Basically, I just created MySQL temporary storage folder and told MySQL where to find it.
Hope this article will help you if you're having the same issue.
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Roman Sr. Software Engineer |
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