I looked into the /var/log/mysql/error.log and saw a couple ERROR
messages:
2016-05-11T16:44:29.464074Z 0 [ERROR] unknown variable 'key_buffer=16M'
2016-05-11T16:46:47.683724Z 0 [ERROR] unknown variable 'myisam-recover=BACKUP'
I removed the 'key_buffer=16M' and 'myisam-recover=BACKUP' entries fro
I ended up having /etc/api in some kind of weird state. Ended up doing
the following as root:
NOTE: You may want to backup /etc/ati somewhere before doing the remove
just in case you need to restore it for some reason.
1) rm -r /etc/ati
2) ln -s /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/ati /etc/ati
3) amdconfig -