The troubleshooting steps for InnoDB
I/O problems depend on when the problem occurs: during startup of the MySQL server, or during normal operations when a DML or DDL statement fails due to problems at the file system level.
If something goes wrong when InnoDB
attempts to initialize its tablespace or its log files, delete all files created by InnoDB
: all ibdata
files and all ib_logfile
files. If you already created some InnoDB
tables, also delete any .ibd
files from the MySQL database directories. Then try the InnoDB
database creation again. For easiest troubleshooting, start the MySQL server from a command prompt so that you see what is happening.
If InnoDB
prints an operating system error during a file operation, usually the problem has one of the following solutions:
Make sure the InnoDB
data file directory and the InnoDB
log directory exist.
Make sure mysqld has access rights to create files in those directories.
Make sure mysqld can read the proper my.cnf
or my.ini
option file, so that it starts with the options that you specified.
Make sure the disk is not full and you are not exceeding any disk quota.
Make sure that the names you specify for subdirectories and data files do not clash.
Doublecheck the syntax of the innodb_data_home_dir
and innodb_data_file_path
values. In particular, any MAX
value in the innodb_data_file_path
option is a hard limit, and exceeding that limit causes a fatal error.