Hi,
I just downloaded XAMPP for Linux onto my Ubuntu 12.04 and unzipped onto /opt. Whenever I try to start lampp I get this error "XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
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From another I setup the log and got this
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120806 22:57:04 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /opt/lampp/var/mysql
120806 22:57:04 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/opt/lampp/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13)
120806 22:57:04 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use InnoDB's own implementation
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 16.0M
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
120806 22:57:04 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
120806 22:57:04 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ashish-Aspire-5000.pid ended
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I am running lampp as root, any help?