Comment 3 for bug 1170024

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Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-prabhu) wrote :

The workaround would be to manually do

groupadd -r %{mysqld_group} 2> /dev/null || true
useradd -M -r -d $mysql_datadir -s /bin/bash -c "MySQL server" \
  -g %{mysqld_group} %{mysqld_user} 2> /dev/null || true
# The user may already exist, make sure it has the proper group nevertheless
# (BUG#12823)
usermod -g %{mysqld_group} %{mysqld_user} 2> /dev/null || true

before doing yum install (in case of clean install)