Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote:
> 
>     You shouldnt have restarted. 
> 
>     mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql
> daemons is normal and ok. 
> 
>     # /etc/init.d/mysql stop
> --- You will probably get an error here, if everything happened as you
> said. If not, your done. 
>   
>     kill -9 `ps -ef | grep mysql | awk '{ print $2 }'`
>     
>     As for connecting to mysql, try without a password
>     # mysql -u root 
> 
> 
>     See if it connects. 
> 
> 
> 
>     Until you determine what is starting it, dont reboot. It just puts
> you back to square 1. I think the question you are asking is why is
> mysql already running. Its gotta be starting in the init scripts
> somehow, and if its not in /etc/init.d/mysql I would check for other
> scripts starting it. 
> 
>     # grep mysql /etc/init.d/*

I ran /etc/init.d/mysql stop and it stopped without error - all of them.
I ran /etc/init.d/mysql start and it started again - now there are a
whole lot of them in the ps listing, but I can connect with the mysql
client.  It seems to be fixed for now..


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