Installation problem on Linux : mysqld ended

[JoSno]

Hi guys,

I've searched through this forum for answers but whilst people have often been in the same situation as me nobody has ever given an answer, so I'm asking it again.

I've downloaded and installed the server, client and shared-compat rpm's.

I run bin/mysql_install_db with no problems.

I then run bin/mysqld_safe (background) but straight away it drops out saying "mysqld ended".

Obviously then whenever I try to run mysqladmin or mysql it tells me...

"bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!"

Any ideas? Is it a permissions problem? I've also tried setting the root password but I don't know if it's worked because the mysqld daemon isn't running.

Please help!!

Jo

 

[Chacalinc]

didn't you try "/etc/init.d/mysql &" or "mysqld &" ?

 

[JoSno]

Isn't mysqld& exactly the same file, just picked up from the path rather than me executing it directly using a fully qualified path, or indirectly from mysqld_safe?

As for mysql itself well that's my problem. It won't run because the daemon isn't running.

Cheers
Jo

 

[KarveR]

what does the myslq log say about it ? also any system messages regarding why the daemon fails to start ?


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[JoSno]

ah well I'll look at that tonight and get back to you.

there are no messages prompted as to why it's failing though

Jo

 

[KarveR]

Normally, if a process fails to start correctly it will be reported in /var/log/messages and or /path/to/mysql/ servername.err or servername.log

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