Everything has been running fine up until today, but it appears there is a problem with my mysql server. So I try to restart the mysql server and I see the following: sudo service mysql restart stop: Unknown instance: start: Job failed to start In the syslog I see the following: kernel: init: Failed to spawn mysql main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory This doesn't make sense I haven't made an update. Any help to get me back up and running would be appreciated.
You could run mysqld on the commandline and and see if it prints anything, and/or check logs, and/or run under strace to see what syscall returns that error and go from there. Google searches also are helpful, eg. numerous causes/things to try at http://askubuntu.com/questions/1256...ss-unable-to-execute-no-such-file-or-director
