Thanks to everyone, MySQL is back up and running. This was definitely enlightening!
Sachin On 4/3/06, Eric Braswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sachin Petkar wrote: > > For some reason, MySQL 4.0.18 has suddenly stopped running and will not > > start anymore. > > > > It has been running for several weeks until about 5 days ago. When I > tried > > to reach it, I discovered that it is no longer running. However, > > attempting to start it via the mysqld_safe script simply returns with: > > > > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data > > 060402 18:49:55 mysqld ended > > > > [1] Done ./mysqld_safe --user mysql > > > > > > To confirm, the /tmp/mysql.sock file does not exist at this point. > > There are several possible reasons for this. One of the most common is > inappropriate permissions on the files in /usr/local/mysql/data (they > need to be readable and writable by the user under which mysql is run, > usually "mysql") > > The first thing you should do is check the error log file in > /usr/local/mysql/data, on Mac OS X, usually named <hostname>.err > > In a terminal window, typing: > > tail /usr/local/mysql/data/example.com.err > > will give you the last few lines of this file and likely tell you what > the specific problem is. It's possible you may need to be root or use > sudo <command> to get permissions to read this file. > > Another poster suggested verifying that MySQL is not running. In your > case it has clearly stopped, but you can always verify that by using the > ps command: > > ps auwx | grep mysql > > If it's running, you will see an item with "/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld" > in the list. > > It was also suggested to us another utility other than safe_mysqld to > start the mysql server. In most cases it is better to use safe_mysqld. > Any special options you need can be specified in /etc/my.cnf. But it > sounds like you are using the default installation, so everything should > just work. > > Eric > > > -- > Eric Braswell > Web Manager MySQL AB > Cupertino, USA > > -- Sachin Petkar Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
