Finally got everything working. In summary, this is what had to happen for this to work - I really suggest updating your documentation!! Installation should not be this hard :(
- Install nscd and ensure that it’s started PRIOR to installing Infobright
- Install Infobright via RPM or DEB and then use postconfig.sh to activate and start Infobright *at least once*
If you want to move the data directory:
- Stop Infobright, move the data directory, change the owner to MySQL, and update the CNF (Note: log-error is NOT optional. If you don’t update the path IB won’t start and give the same cryptic error about mysql.plugin or mysql.hosts)
- DO NOT USE postconfig.sh to move the directory or change ports, it’s completely ineffective!
And finally to even connect to it from another machine, you have to fix the my-ib.cnf with the following options (thanks Yurx: http://www.infobright.org/Forums/viewthread/2003/)
[mysqld]
skip-host-cache
skip-name-resolve
And now finally I can get into Infobright using MySQLWorkbench and actually get on evaluation of the database. I’m praying that when we do our trials, that it isn’t this difficult! Thanks for all your help!
