tOn Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Justin Cassidy wrote:
Hey, When I install mysql via apt-get I get this error: Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server. (Reading database ... 36754 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_3.23.49-8.6_i386.deb) ... Setting up mysql-server (3.23.49-8.6) ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed. I tried /etc/init.d/mysql start as well as many other methods of starting
Try looking in /var/lib/mysql/hostname.err. That should tell you why its failing
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