{"id":698,"date":"2012-07-11T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supportpro.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:07:29","slug":"how-to-fix-the-errorinnodb-operating-system-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-the-errorinnodb-operating-system-error\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix the Error &#8220;InnoDB: Operating system error&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"698\" class=\"elementor elementor-698\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-69bb7155 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"69bb7155\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7db0cc49\" data-id=\"7db0cc49\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6be4f1e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6be4f1e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For many reason Mysql service may go down. If the mysql service is showing down, first you check the mysql log file &#8216;\/var\/log\/mysqld.log&#8217; for errors. If you get the following errors in log, you can easily fix this by correcting the access permission of mysql (\/var\/lib\/mysql where the ibdata1 is located) directory to mysql user access permission.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">101114 12:45:43 mysqld started<br>\n101114 12:45:43 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.<br>\nInnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to<br>\nInnoDB: the directory.<br>\nInnoDB: File name .\/ibdata1<br>\nInnoDB: File operation call: &#8216;open&#8217;.<br>\nInnoDB: Cannot continue operation.<br>\n101114 12:45:43 mysqld ended<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can correct the permission by running the following command and finally restart the mysql service.<\/p>\n<p>chown -R mysql:mysql \/var\/lib\/mysql<\/p>\n<p>If you require help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/requestquote.php\">contact SupportPRO Server Admin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><br><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(2725694, '9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b', {}); 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