Hello.
What version of MySQL do you use? General information about MySQL Server Shutdown Process you can find here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-shutdown.html Mayuran Yogarajah wrote: > We have MySQL running on a Redhat server (RHEL 3.2). We issued a > service mysql > restart yesterday and for some reason MySQL didn't shut down properly. > The init > script said it "gave up waiting" and deleted the PID file anyway. Since > we issued a restart, > I suspect a second copy of MySQL got started. InnoDB complained that it > was not > shut down normally and started doing recovery. We let the recovery > process finish, stopped > the second instance of mysql and killed the first instance (using kill > -9). The server seems OK > now (luckily its not in production yet), but I don't know what would > cause MySQL to not > shut down properly. Has this happened to anyone else? Please let me > know if you have any > theories or suggestions. > > thanks, > M > -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]