[Opensim-users] Weird issue with mysqld service restarting after Windows 8.1 upgrade

[Chris]

On 10/22/2013 6:27 AM, Ai Austin wrote:
>
>> From: Chris <mewtwo0641 at gmail.com>
>>
>> First thing I would do before attempting to fix the issue is make a
>> backup of your database; Once you've done that; check your environment
>> variables in System Properties > Advanced Tab > Environment Variables
>> and look under System Variables for Path, edit it and and see if
>> possibly the path to /mysql install path here/bin hasn't been removed
>> due to the upgrade. If it's not there then try putting that back in and
>> reboot your computer. If worse comes to worse I suppose you could
>> reinstall MySQL and then restore from your database backup if necessary
>> (not sure if it would get overwritten or not from a reinstall).
>
>
> Thanks Chris... the path environment variable was okay and the usual 
> mysql and mysqld commands were being found.  It was the "MySQL" 
> service registration that had in it a faulty path to the myslyd 
> executable with the /bin stripped out, and indeed the parameter to the 
> --default-path removed!   Since the services area in the Task Manager 
> does not let you alter the executable I had to resort to changing the 
> registry.  But a simple change there to make it the same as all my 
> other MySQL 5.6 entries and it all worked again fine.  Really peculiar 
> upgrade issue!
>
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Very peculiar indeed :) Good to hear  you got it sorted out though!

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