On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Glyn Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Part of the problem is that I can't stop the server. > > Oh, so it does start? I thought it also wasn't starting, if it's not > starting then stopping it will fail. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you check the following : In my system, which is CentOS , I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# ls /usr/share/mysql/my-* /usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf* /usr/share/mysql/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf* /usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf* /usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf* /usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# your path may depend on installation. Copy any of the cnf file to /etc/my.cnf i.e. mv /etc/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf.bak && cp /usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf Then try to restart mysql /etc/init.d/mysql restart Also notice permissions/ownerships on the following folder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# ls -lhd /var/lib/mysql/ drwxr-x--x 35 mysql mysql 4.0K Sep 18 04:11 /var/lib/mysql// [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# ls -lhd /var/lib/mysql/mysql drwx--x--x 2 mysql mysql 4.0K Sep 11 18:12 /var/lib/mysql/mysql/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# If problem persist, throw some light on how exactly you installed mysql (version as well as OS and path of mysql install )
