Thoughts & Ideas About Web Development » Solutions to Random Errors http://blog.andy-gale.com Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:30:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database (can’t rmdir ‘./[database_name]/’, errno: 17) http://blog.andy-gale.com/error-1010-hy000-error-dropping-database-cant-rmdir-database_name-errno-17/ http://blog.andy-gale.com/error-1010-hy000-error-dropping-database-cant-rmdir-database_name-errno-17/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:55:48 +0000 Andy Gale http://blog.andy-gale.com/?p=17 I was getting this cryptic error message earlier. It initially looks like a permissions problem but in fact it was caused by prior use of the SELECT .. INTO OUTFILE which dumped a .csv file into the database directory and was preventing the remove directory command from successfully executing.

That directory is /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/[database_name] on Macports, /var/lib/mysql/[database_name] on Linux (well Debian, at least) and FreeBSD /var/db/mysql/[database_name]

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