Re: mysql hangs on client start (and mysql_install_db)

2001-02-14 Thread Gerald L. Clark
Check permissions. The var directory anad all subdirectories and files must be accessible by the user under which MySQL runs. The directory containing the mysql.lock file must be readable and searchable by everyone. Drew Degentesh wrote: > > >Description: > mysql hangs. This is really frustrati

mysql hangs on client start (and mysql_install_db)

2001-02-12 Thread Drew Degentesh
>Description: mysql hangs. This is really frustrating. History: -had 3.23.27 running. Had to restart the machine. -on reboot, no clients would connect (command line , Perl or PHP) -tried to restart by rc.d/initd/mysql stop, that timed out -killed off processes with kill -9 -tried to restart, clien