Having problems starting mysql on my linux box. I think I've tried just about everything in the manual within reason. Please help out if anyone has an idea. The other day, mysql died on my system for no apparent reason. When I reboot the machine, based on the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql, mysql should start up and it does --somewhat. Here's the message I get: [root@myserver mysql]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start [root@myserver mysql]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/var/mysql And it shows up in the process list below... root 5340 0.0 0.3 1668 828 pts/0 S 21:23 0:00 sh /usr/bin/safe_ mysql 5365 0.0 0.4 3308 1176 pts/0 S 21:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld mysql 5366 0.0 0.4 3308 1176 pts/0 S 21:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld mysql 5367 0.0 0.4 3308 1176 pts/0 S 21:23 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld And it logs it to my /usr/var/mysql/server.log as: /usr/sbin/mysqld, Version: 3.23.21-beta-log, started with: Tcp port: 3306 Unix socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Time Id Command Argument But any commands I send to mysql or mysqladmin hangup and nothing ever happens. I then have to kill -9 to force it to stop. So now I manually go in and start it, as root with safe_mysqld. Here's what I get: [root@myserver mysql]# safe_mysqld kill 4212: No such process Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/var/mysql mysqld daemon ended It tries to kill a process, but there is no process in the list! This seems to start it, but then, any commands I send to it just hang the app. If I just try to run mysql from command line I get this: [root@myserver mysql]# mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/m ysql.sock' (111) One thing I have to consider is some recent DNS work I did. Is it possible DNS could cause these problems? I'm really at a loss here. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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