# Percona Cluster Iniialization

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905>\
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905 "2022-01-13T15:39:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimbo881](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jimbo881](https://forums.percona.com/u/jimbo881)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905/1 "2022-01-13T15:39:42Z")

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When trying to initialize the MySQL Percona Cluster, I get the following error (this is prior to attempting to bootstrap the first node):

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --initialize --user=mysql --datadir=/db01/mysql01/data --basedir=/usr/local/mysql  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.701519Z 0 [Warning] [MY-011070] [Server] ‘Disabling symbolic links using --skip-symbolic-links (or equivalent) is the default. Consider not using this option as it’ is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.701689Z 0 [Warning] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Node is running in bootstrap/initialize mode. Disabling pxc\_strict\_mode checks  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.703109Z 0 [System] [MY-013169] [Server] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.25-15.1) initializing of server in progress as process 16914  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.706028Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010187] [Server] Could not open file ‘/db01/mysql01/logs/mysql01.err’ for error logging: No such file or directory  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.706096Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-013236] [Server] The designated data directory /db01/mysql01/data/ is unusable. You can remove all files that the server added to it.  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.706108Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting  
2022-01-13T15:31:12.706311Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.25-15.1) Percona XtraDB Cluster binary (GPL) 8.0.25, Revision 8638bb0, WSREP version 26.4.3.

Can someone please help?  
Thanks  
Jim

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905/2 "2022-01-13T16:36:08Z")

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Hi @jimbo881 , welcome to the Percona forums!

Please check whether there are already files in the `/db01/mysql01/data` directory. Please ensure this directory is empty before executing the bootstrap operation.

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**Author:** ![jimbo881](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jimbo881](https://forums.percona.com/u/jimbo881)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905/3 "2022-01-13T16:38:06Z")

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I played around with it some more and finally got everything in the proper place. We use the tarball for installs and some libraries needed to be moved around along with some other missing stuff. But it is up and running now…

Thanks for the response!  
Jim

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-cluster-iniialization/13905/4 "2022-01-13T16:40:17Z")

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