I was installing the latest MySQL 5.5.4 on a new machine and I came across the following issues during installation, steps I generally perform on other versions without any incidents.
$ sudo su - $ cd /opt $ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.4-m3-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/ $ tar xvfz mysql-5.5.4-m3-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz $ cd mysql-5.5.4-m3-linux2.6-x86_64 $ scripts/mysql_install_db Neither host 'barney' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with /usr/bin/resolveip Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option
Perform some checks
$ /usr/bin/resolveip -su: /usr/bin/resolveip: No such file or directory $ hostname barney $ head -2 /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 barney
I was surprised to find that my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx box had a different IP for hostname, rather then 127.0.0.1. That was a little weird. I changed this just for comfort.
I was not familiar with this command so I tried to install it.
$ apt-get install resolveip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package resolveip $ apt-cache search resolveip
No luck there, off to Google to do a search for resolveip and ubuntu you find the following online manual page
which surprising shows the following as the owner of the command.
_COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
_
Thinking it’s now actually packaged with MySQL we find this in the untar directory.
$ bin/resolveip `hostname` IP address of barney is 127.0.0.1
I’m now still none the wiser regarding this command. I’ve decided to take the –force option for now and we will see!
