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4.8.2 perror — Display MySQL Error Message Information

For most system errors, MySQL displays, in addition to an internal text message, the system error code in one of the following styles:

message ... (errno: #)
message ... (Errcode: #)

You can find out what the error code means by examining the documentation for your system or by using the perror utility.

perror prints a description for a system error code or for a storage engine (table handler) error code.

Invoke perror like this:

perror [options] errorcode ...

Examples:

$> perror 1231
MySQL error code 1231 (ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VAR): Variable '%-.64s' can't
be set to the value of '%-.200s'
$> perror 13 64
OS error code  13:  Permission denied
OS error code  64:  Machine is not on the network

To obtain the error message for a MySQL Cluster error code, use the ndb_perror utility.

The meaning of system error messages may be dependent on your operating system. A given error code may mean different things on different operating systems.

perror supports the following options.

  • --help, --info, -I, -?

    Display a help message and exit.

  • --ndb

    Print the error message for an NDB Cluster error code.

    This option is deprecated in NDB 7.6.4 and later, where perror prints a warning if it is used, and is removed in NDB Cluster 8.0. Use the ndb_perror utility instead.

  • --silent, -s

    Silent mode. Print only the error message.

  • --verbose, -v

    Verbose mode. Print error code and message. This is the default behavior.

  • --version, -V

    Display version information and exit.