When I mysql status I get message "mysql dead but subsys locked" I recieve socket error when I attempt any access - mysql.sock DOES exist @ /var/lib/ System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown Architecture: i686 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/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' CXX='c++' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 15 11:25 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.92.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4776568 Aug 30 17:56 /lib/libc-2.1.92.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22607104 Aug 30 17:15 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Aug 30 17:15 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --without-debug --without-readline --enable-shared --with-extra-charsets=complex --without-bench --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-user=mysql
