Have you got permissions to start the daemon (sudo)? Is the destination for the pid file writable by the MySQL user?
A On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul Nowosielski <paulnowosiel...@yahoo.com > wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running mysql 5.6.10 on Fedora. > when I try and boot mysql I get this: > > # /etc/init.d/mysql start > Starting MySQL.The server quit without updating PID file > (/[FAILED]xt/mysql/veritian.**pid). > > Any ideas? > > Thank you, > > Paul > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > >