Upon further investigation, it turns out that the InnoDB file format must have changed causing the crashes once the system was upgraded. I looked through the mysql change logs and did see a lot of changes to InnoDB from 5.0.22 to 5.0.24a, but nothing that would indicate a file- format change!
-Eric -- Socket missing with mysqld https://launchpad.net/bugs/45694 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs