Re: MySql will not restart

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:43:50 -0700, harland christofferson wrote:
> running 2.4.27-2-k7
> 
> For years, MySql was running fine.
> 
> This a.m., webpages were not being served.
> 
> I thought that it was MySql.
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> #/etc/init.d/mysql restart
> 
> I received this:
> 
> Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
>         Please take a look at the syslog.
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
> 
> I followed instructions:
> 
> #grep mysql /var/log/syslog
> 
> Yields:
> 
>  /etc/init.d/mysql[14242]: 0 processes alive and '/usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping' resulted in
> /etc/init.d/mysql[14242]: ^G/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> /etc/init.d/mysql[14242]: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
> /etc/init.d/mysql[14242]: Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
> 
> There is no /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock file 
> 
> My /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is:
> 
> # Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH!
> [client]
> host     = localhost
> user     = debian-sys-maint
> password = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> socket   = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

I only have a general suggestion: Have a look at /var/log/daemon.log, it
sometimes contains more information about what goes wrong with daemon
processes.

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