More var woes: MySQL won't start; audits logged

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org)]

So last night I shrunk my ext4 / by 20GB and set up an ext3 partition for
/var.  gparted took many hours to do it, so I had to try to finish it up
before I left for work this morning.  I tried to mount the new partition
under /var, and that didn't work, and I had no time to research it.

I had moved /var to /oldvar so I could use /var as a mount point, so to
recover, I "ln -s /oldvar /var" while booted on the LiveCD.  I then "ln -s
/var/mail /newvar/mail" (where newvar is where I mounted the new partition
that was supposed to be /var).

Now, mail is working, but MySQL won't start.  the file permissions on /var
look the same to me, but maybe going though a symlink, even on the same
partition, is causing a problem.  This is what I see in my logs:


david at janus:~$ sudo grep mysql /var/log/messages
[sudo] password for david:
Jun  6 23:01:22 janus kernel: [546145.081033] type=1505
audit(1244343682.017:20): operation="profile_replace"
name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" name2="default" pid=7420
Jun 12 06:30:14 janus kernel: [ 1361.606219] type=1505
audit(1244802601.486:10): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
name2="default" pid=31117
Jun 12 03:45:31 janus kernel: [   14.377320] type=1505
audit(1244792725.262:10): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
name2="default" pid=2487
Jun 12 07:45:46 janus kernel: [   22.736994] type=1503
audit(1244807146.444:15): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=5258 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 07:45:46 janus kernel: [   22.737045] type=1503
audit(1244807146.444:16): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=5258 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 07:45:46 janus kernel: [   22.802853] type=1503
audit(1244807146.508:17): operation="inode_permission"
requested_mask="rw::" denied_mask="rw::" fsuid=112
name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/ibdata1" pid=5258 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 11:59:13 janus kernel: [15230.167268] type=1503
audit(1244822353.464:45): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=32583 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 11:59:13 janus kernel: [15230.167496] type=1503
audit(1244822353.464:46): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=32583 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 11:59:13 janus kernel: [15230.472607] type=1503
audit(1244822353.769:47): operation="inode_permission"
requested_mask="rw::" denied_mask="rw::" fsuid=112
name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/ibdata1" pid=32583 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 12:03:20 janus kernel: [15477.088367] type=1503
audit(1244822600.381:48): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=2591 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 12:03:20 janus kernel: [15477.088532] type=1503
audit(1244822600.385:49): operation="inode_create" requested_mask="a::"
denied_mask="a::" fsuid=0 name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/janus.lower-test"
pid=2591 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"
Jun 12 12:03:20 janus kernel: [15477.106881] type=1503
audit(1244822600.401:50): operation="inode_permission"
requested_mask="rw::" denied_mask="rw::" fsuid=112
name="/oldvar/lib/mysql/ibdata1" pid=2591 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld"


Thanks.