Andrew Garrett's Blog » code http://blog.werdn.us Development, wikis and life Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 MySQL, Ubuntu, Temporary Tables and AppArmor http://blog.werdn.us/2009/10/mysql-ubuntu-temporary-tables-and-apparmor/ http://blog.werdn.us/2009/10/mysql-ubuntu-temporary-tables-and-apparmor/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:54 +0000 andrew http://blog.werdn.us/2009/10/mysql-ubuntu-temporary-tables-and-apparmor/ I was trying to install CiviCRM on Wikimedia Australia’s server, and I came across this fun error:

ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table '/tmp/#sql7013_9_0.frm' (errno: -1)

Turned out, Ubuntu’s AppArmor was breaking the creation of temporary tables in /tmp.

The way around this was to add a new line to the apparmor profile for mysqld
/tmp/** rwk

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