When you stop MySQL, the kill command completes immediately, while MySQL is still doing shutdown tasks to make sure the database is in a consistent state. As MySQL is still running when you try to start it, it will fail to do so. There's 2 ways to fix this: - use mysqladmin shutdown, needs a user in the database with process privileges, this is the way used by debian - implement a loop that waits for MySQL to shutdown after executing the kill command. This is what the upstream MySQL start/stop script does. On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 22:46 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > 4. I then run the command to restart the daemon for MySQL and it fails... > > Code: > > [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart > :: Stopping MySQL Server > > [DONE] > :: Starting MySQL Server > > [FAIL] > > I can use the 'start' and 'stop' commands for /etc/rc.d/mysqld but > 'restart' for some reason fails and this concerns me. Can anyone help > me understand what is wrong?
