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Drew Degentesh wrote:
> 
> >Description:
> mysql hangs. This is really frustrating. History:
> -had 3.23.27 running. Had to restart the machine.
> -on reboot, no clients would connect (command line , Perl or PHP)
> -tried to restart by rc.d/initd/mysql stop, that timed out
> -killed off processes with kill -9
> -tried to restart, clients still hanging
> -downlaoded 3.23.32 binary. hung up in mysql_install_db after printing "installing 
>all prepared tables"
> -killed those processes off..s.tarted with safe_mysqld ... &
> -clients still hung
> -downloaded 3.23.32 source. compiled, hung up in mysql_install_db after printing 
>"installing all prepared tables"
> -killed off those processes ,started with safe_mysqld ... &, clients still hung
> -ran myisamchk and isamchk on all DB files.. still hangs
> -removed all my.cnf's ... still hangs
> 
> Im SUPER FRUSTRATED...please help!!!
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> >Fix:
> 
> 
> >Submitter-Id:  <submitter ID>
> >Originator:    Drew Degentesh
> >Organization:
> >MySQL support: none
> >Synopsis:      mysql clients hung (cannot start)
> >Severity:      critical
> >Priority:      high
> >Category:      mysql
> >Class:
> >Release:       mysql-3.23.27-beta (Official MySQL binary)
> 
> >Environment:
> 
> System: Linux 2.2.12-20RS #1 Mon Feb 14 16:39:25 CST 2000 i586 unknown
> Architecture: i586
> 
> Some paths:  /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
> GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> Compilation info: CC='gcc'  CFLAGS='-O6 -mpentium -fomit-frame-pointer'  CXX='gcc'  
>CXXFLAGS='-O6 -mpentium -fomit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors'  LDFLAGS='-static'
> LIBC:
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Mar 30  2000 /lib/libc.so.6 -> 
>libc-2.1.2.so
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      4118683 Feb 23  2000 /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     20031726 Feb 23  2000 /usr/lib/libc.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          178 Feb 23  2000 /usr/lib/libc.so
> Configure command: ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/mysql '--with-comment=Official 
>MySQL binary' --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-assembler 
>--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --disable-shared
> 
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