Hi, I'm running mysql 4.0.16 on RedHat Linux.
I tried shutting down mysql more than 2 hours ago, by executing 'mysqladmin shutdown', and it's still running. Here is the end of the log file /var/log/mysqld.log: 060624 09:31:54 mysqld started 060624 9:31:55 InnoDB: Data file /var/lib/mysql/ibdata2 did not exist: new to be created 060624 9:31:55 InnoDB: Setting file /var/lib/mysql/ibdata2 size to 50 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 060624 9:31:56 InnoDB: Started /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: ready for connections. Version: '4.0.16-Max' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 060624 10:40:31 /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: Normal shutdown 060624 10:40:31 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 060624 10:40:36 InnoDB: Shutdown completed 060624 10:40:36 /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: Shutdown Complete 060624 10:40:37 mysqld ended 060624 10:44:15 mysqld started 060624 10:44:23 InnoDB: Started /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: ready for connections. Version: '4.0.16-Max' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 060704 12:16:25 /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: Normal shutdown 060704 12:16:25 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... The processes mysqld_safe and mysqld-max are still running, both at 0.0% CPU time. What's unusual and maybe relevant is that recently, 10 days ago to be precise, is that the innodb tablespace file filled the entire external drive, where the datadir variable was pointing to. So I had shut down the database, moved all the files except the ibdata1 to the new datadir on the internal drive, edited my.cnf and pointed the datadir the new location, and set the innodb_data_file_path to include the old file with the space rounded down to the nearest megabyte and the the new file at the new location. The server came up and ran without any apparent problems, as can be seen from the log file above. Here is the data file path variable: set-variable = innodb_data_file_path=/mnt/vault/mysql/ibdata1:129685M;/var/lib/mysql/ibdata2:50M:autoextend After that I recycled the server and everything was fine. What to do now? Killing mysql is probably a bad idea... Thanks in advance for your help, Sergei -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]