[PLUG] mysqld problem

[Matt Alexander]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:

> I'm running Fedora Core 1, fully patched. When I try to start mysqld
> with the "service" command, it starts, but reports that it failed:
> 
>   service mysqld start
>   Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
>   Starting MySQL:                              [FAILED]
> 
> It seems that it is running however:
> 
>   service mysqld status
>   mysqld (pid 4632) is running...
> 
> and...
> 
>   ps -A
>   4608 pts/0    00:00:00 safe_mysqld
>   4632 pts/0    00:00:00 mysqld
> 
> I am able to log into mysql and access tables and data.
> 
> Any idea as to why it starts, but reports that it failed?

Because it's already running...