SOLVED: MySQL immediately closes connection on 3306 with no message at all

2002-11-06 Thread Antonios Christofides
(I forgot to mention in my original message that I *had* commented out the skip-networking directive in /etc/mysql/my.cnf; the directive would have resulted in in the connection being refused; the problem here was that the connection was immediately and silently closed.) > $ telnet localhost 330

MySQL immediately closes connection on 3306 with no message at all

2002-11-05 Thread Antonios Christofides
Hi, all. Here's the problem, in short: $ telnet localhost 3306 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to acheloos. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. The connection is closed immediately; all 4 lines above are output in an instant. Nothing's written in the log files. I

SOLVED: Can't upgrade: "Can't change to run as user 'mysql'"

2002-10-15 Thread Antonios Christofides
x27;t change..." could be a 3.23.53 bug (although I feel it's more complex than that). Antonios Christofides wrote: > I'm running MySQL 3.23.37 on a RedHat 6.2 with a custom 2.2.22 kernel. > Recently I stopped being able to connect from a remote client, with a > "m

Can't upgrade: "Can't change to run as user 'mysql'"

2002-10-15 Thread Antonios Christofides
I'm running MySQL 3.23.37 on a RedHat 6.2 with a custom 2.2.22 kernel. Recently I stopped being able to connect from a remote client, with a "mysqld process hanging" message in the log and a "lost connection" message on the client, and I found in the archives that this is probably due a recent upd