Do you have a user defined as?

Login Name: mysql
Full Name: MySQL Server
group: mysql
Home directory: /var/lib/mysql

Your 'Fatal Error' line indicates that user mysql does not exist?

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> 
> >Description:
> 
> Upgrade from MySQL-3.23.52 to MySQL-3.23.53
> 
> 021014 15:49:54  mysqld started
> Fatal error: Can't change to run as user 'mysql' ;  Please check that the user 
>exists!
> 021014 15:49:54  Aborting
> 
> 021014 15:49:54  /usr/sbin/mysqld: Lõpp
> 
> 021014 15:49:54  mysqld ended
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
>         RedHat-7.3 and MySQL-3.23.53
> >Fix:
> 
> 
> >Submitter-Id:  <submitter ID>
> >Originator:    root
> >Organization: CVO Group Ltd.
> >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ]
> >Synopsis:
> >Severity:      critical
> >Priority:      high
> >Category:      mysql
> >Class:         sw-bug
> >Release:       mysql-3.23.53 (Official MySQL RPM)
> 
> >Environment:
> 
> System: Linux deadman.cv.ee 2.4.18-3smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 18 07:27:31 EDT 2002 i686 
>unknown
> Architecture: i686
> 
> Some paths:  /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
> GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)
> Compilation info: CC='gcc'  CFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpentium'  
>CXX='gcc'  CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer              -felide-constructors 
>-fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium'  LDFLAGS=''
> LIBC:
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 sept   8 18:08 /lib/libc.so.6 -> 
>libc-2.2.5.so
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1260480 apr   15 16:44 /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2310808 apr   15 17:02 /usr/lib/libc.a
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          178 apr   15 16:55 /usr/lib/libc.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 sept   8 21:02 /usr/lib/libc-client.a -> 
>c-client.a
> Configure command: ./configure --disable-shared --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static 
>--with-client-ldflags=-all-static --without-berkeley-db --without-innodb 
>--enable-assembler --enable-local-infile --with-mysqld-user=mysql 
>--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --prefix=/ 
>--with-extra-charsets=complex --exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin 
>--sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql 
>--infodir=/usr/share/info --includedir=/usr/include --mandir=/usr/share/man 
>'--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM' CC=gcc 'CFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer 
>-mpentium' 'CXXFLAGS=-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer               -felide-constructors 
>-fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' CXX=gcc
> 
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