Posted by Virginner on 06/08/06 22:34

"Frances" <fdr58@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| a few days ago I installed XAMPP in my Windows 2000 machine, it
| completely messed my existing MySQL installation.. I've had it installed
| for over a year now (4.1) have never had any problems with it whatsoever
| (I connect to it from Tomcat and from stand-alone Java classes), now
| since I installed XAMPP I cannot connect to it at all, cannot start
| service... I uninstalled XAMPP completely, and my MySQL server still
| doesn't work.. so why does XAMPP not come with a warning that it can
| mess up existing MySQL installations? can there be a version of it
| without MySQL (and thus without the demos that pull info from db?) I
| have spent two days now trying to fix this problem, and after trying to
| get help here and elsewhere I still have not been able to fix this..
|
| this is error I get (from .err file) when try to start service now:
|
| InnoDB: Error: log file .\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 10485760
| bytes
| InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 5242880 bytes!
| 060607 22:47:57 [ERROR] Can't init databases
| 060607 22:47:57 [ERROR] Aborting
|
| 060607 22:47:57 [Note] mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete
|

I'm sorry you have had problems.

It came about as you installed MySQL 5 straight over a copy of MySQL 4.1.

It can be solved by editing your my.ini file.

Check the entry innodb_log_file_size=xxxxx

and change it to innodb_log_file_size=10M which is what it's expecting.

D.

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