Our site has been turfed b/c of an identical problem, and despite many people reporting the same problem, no useful advice has yet surfaced.
Our site has been running for over a year (non-stop) with no incident. Yesterday I logged on and noticed that mysqld was not accepting connections. After trying to restart the server, reboot the machine, checking permissions, etc, I decided to try an reinstall. Every type of install results in the process hanging at: "Installing all prepared tables" I have tried various RPMS and building from source. After killing the process there are no tables in the mysql folder. I have tried: - checking hostname - checking freespace - making sure there is a mysql user - making sure there is a mysql group - chowning all files in /var/lib/mysql to mysql:mysql (including /var/lib/mysql) - chmoding all files 777 (and everything below) - running mysql_install_db --user=mysql - running mysql_install_db --user=root - erasing all pids, socks and locks - creating a /etc/my.cnf file with user=mysql but I can not get beyond mysql_install_db.... Despite this I have copied in backed up tables into the mysql folder and have tried to start mysql (even as root). Error log says: 011230 13:52:55 mysqld started Yet I can not connect through the client, or use mysqladmin status, etc. Everything just hangs. Any advice would be appreciated, our (live) site has been down for 2 days and it seems like the only solution is to go to our co-location center and upgrade to 7.1 (or format). Although having sifted through the last 2 years worth of messages and seeing this problem reported several times with no solution, it doesn't look good.. Thanks! -mark > I've decided to ask for help after 8 hours, two reinstalls, and searching > the mail archives...ARGH!! > > System 586, RedHat 6.2, MySQL 3.22.32 > > Anyway, installed mysql 5 days ago, every thing went smooth with the RPM > install. No problems. I made a couple of little databases, added some > users, all was smooth. Then today, I couldn't connect to the database from > command line 'mysql -u myname'. The mysql client would just hang and sit > there, no verbose, no warnings, nothing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
