On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 21:46, Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote: > I created a new image and mysqld failed to start. The problem may be that some > files have changed owners and groups in the image. Try tar with the '--numeric-owner' flag, or check what the uid of mysql is on the live system and chown it to that. Or even better, add a startup script that runs before mysql that sets the permissions of the files as necessary. Will