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.. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list