From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: When I start mysqld, the following appears in my /var/log/mysqld.log Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set. If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line skip-innodb to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add to the [mysqld] section, for example, innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend But to get good performance you should adjust for your hardware the InnoDB startup options listed in section 2 at http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mysql-server-3.23.58-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. service mysqld stop 2. service mysqld start Actual Results: See above. Expected Results: No message about InnoDB in the log. Additional info: my.conf is the default installed. Adding skip-innodb to the [mysqld] section stops the warning message. However it would disable any innodb databases if I had any.
These are just warning/informational messages that have been in MySQL for some time. MySQL is built with InnoDB support and the user has to do a little setup work.