ERROR 1006 (HY000) Can't create database (errno: 13) MySQL 5.6.12

Question

I am facing problem creating the database and it results in following error.

mysql> show grants for 'admin'@'%';
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for admin@%                                                                                                              |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'admin'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*4ACFE3202A5FF5CF467898FC58AAB1D615029441' WITH GRANT OPTION |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> create database abc;
ERROR 1006 (HY000): Can't create database 'abc' (errno: 13)

Here is my users table.

mysql> select host, user from mysql.user;
+-------------+-------+
| host        | user  |
+-------------+-------+
| %           | admin |
| 127.0.0.1   | root  |
| ::1         | root  |
| IVM-MMC-DGW | root  |
| localhost   | admin |
| localhost   | root  |
+-------------+-------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)


mysql> show grants;
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for admin@localhost                                                                                                              |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*4ACFE3202A5FF5CF467898FC58AAB1D615029441' WITH GRANT OPTION |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I can create and remove table in the existing database.

The data directory already has mysql:mysql privileges and also the logged in user has privilege to create the new database.

What configuration is missing here ?

Answer 1

There may be a permissions issue with the MySQL data directory. You could try setting the permissions as follows (adjust the path to your data directory)

chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data