DB install fails

[petamem]

After some serious hassle of installing GD (for Auth::Captcha).

No luck with DB init:

www PearlBee # /etc/init.d/mysql start
 * Checking mysqld configuration for mysql ...     [ ok ]
 * Starting mysql ...                              [ ok ]

www PearlBee # mysql -u root -p < db_patches/create_tables.sql
Enter password: 
ERROR 1136 (21S01) at line 121: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

ok, let's try the other magic line:

www PearlBee # mysql -u root -p < db_patches/set_up_new_db.sql
Enter password: 
ERROR 1046 (3D000) at line 22: No database selected

No PearlBee here running yet...

[nlannuzel]

open db_patches/create_tables.sql
remove ",0" at the end of the last line:
INSERT INTO settings VALUES ('Europe/Bucharest',1,'','/','PearlBee',1);

This worked for me

[flingtoad]

The problem seems to be that the settings table is created with 6 columns:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `settings` (
  `timezone` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `social_media` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
  `theme_folder` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `blog_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `multiuser` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `id` int(2) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='Settings table.';

The INSERT statement then tries to pass 7 values.

Removing the last value from the INSERT appears to work because you are now passing the right number of values. However, removing the trailing 0 value screws up the alignment of VALUE to COLUMN. Presumably, 'PearlBee' belongs in the 'blog_name' column. I think the incorrect item in the list of values is probably the third value ('') or the fourth value ('/'), depending on what we want to set as out 'theme_folder'. My guess is that '/' is the correct value for 'theme_folder'.

[huache]

In commit ac6032a
blog_path field in settings table was removed, but the committer forgot to change the last insert statement in db_patches/create_tables.sql.

[petamem]

Revisiting PearlBee...

• the name of the SQL file in the docs does not match the filename actually being there. (create_tables.sql vs. create_tables_mySQL.sql), but ok:

# mysql -u root -p < db_patches/create_tables_mySQL.sql 
Enter password: 
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 8: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'TYPE role_type as enum('author','admin')' at line 1

oh come on...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1462497/creating-enum-variable-type-in-mysql
"No. MySQL does not support CREATE DOMAIN or CREATE TYPE as, for example, PostgreSQL does."

I also see no "ENUM" in the syntax definition of
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/sql-99/create-type-statement/

[huache]

@petamem Sorry, I am not very sure what exactly you wan to express.
It seems that someone changed the file db_patches/create_tables.sql to db_patches/create_tables_mySQL.sql, and change the sql statement. So, you are actually in front of a totally different problem now. Of course, the solution other people posted in this issue will be not worked. You need to find another solution.
However, if you just want to try PearlBee, checkout the commit ac6032a and modify the file like I said, It will be worked. I have tried it by myself. Good luck !