On inital install /var/db/mysql is created owned by root:wheel Directory ownership is changed by rc.d/mysql-server script in 'mysql_create_auth_tables' procedure on first startup. When I reinstall port, e.g. for updating, /var/db/mysql ownership is changed to root:wheel rc-script no longer changes directory owner because it's already populated with system tables. SQL-server can't start until manual chown for /var/db/mysql
A commit references this bug: Author: flo Date: Fri Nov 6 17:10:18 UTC 2015 New revision: 400946 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/400946 Log: - update to 5.5.46-37.5 - fix permission on db dir [1] PR: 204144 [1] Reported by: <sergey@akhmatov.ru> [1] Changes: head/databases/percona55-client/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt head/databases/percona55-server/Makefile head/databases/percona55-server/distinfo head/databases/percona55-server/pkg-plist
Fixed by r400946. Thanks for the report!