Zash, thanks for the update. It sounds like this system was pretty seriously damaged at one time, and may need to have a fresh install. However there are a few things to check:
In the grep I notice this: Aug 3 16:51:40 gladius mysqld[22873]: 100803 16:51:40 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0 Aug 3 16:51:40 gladius mysqld[22873]: 100803 16:51:40 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/user.frm' (errno: 13) Aug 3 16:51:40 gladius mysqld[22873]: ERROR: 1017 Can't find file: './mysql/user.frm' (errno: 13) errno: 13 is "permission denied". You may need to check the permissions on the /var/lib/mysql folders to make sure the directories are owned and/or writable by the 'mysql' user. The "hang" you're experiencing appears to be mysqld restarting over and over because of this issue. One thing to try is the following steps: 1. make sure all mysqld's are dead (stop mysql, killall mysqld, etc, verify with ps auxw | grep mysqld) 2. sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.old ; sudo mv /etc/mysql /etc/mysql.old 3. sudo dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.1 4. sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1 5. stop mysql 6. mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql.empty 7. mv /var/lib/mysql.old /var/lib/mysql 8. start mysql If you get the same errno: 13 errors, try chown mysql.root /var/lib/mysql/mysql chmod 700 /var/lib/mysql/mysql chown mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* chmod 660 /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* Now, if mysql starts and sees your data, then you know the problem was probably a configuration issue from the /etc/mysql.old directory. However, if it still fails, then there may be some serious issues with your data. Upon failure or success, please come back and post the results, maybe another log file showing what happened. -- Install broken, won't start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613032 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
