Using The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] [root@tsvr ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. Starting MySQL: [FAILED] [root@tsvr ~]#tail /var/log/mysqld.log 090924 14:27:53 mysqld started InnoDB: Log scan progressed past the checkpoint lsn 0 36808 090924 14:27:53 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally! InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files... InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite InnoDB: buffer... InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655 090924 14:27:53 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database... InnoDB: Progress in percents: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 InnoDB: Apply batch completed 090924 14:27:54 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 090924 14:27:54 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13) 090924 14:27:54 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 090924 14:27:54 mysqld ended [root@tsvr ~]# tail /var/log/mysqld.log InnoDB: buffer... InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655 090924 14:27:53 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database... InnoDB: Progress in percents: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 InnoDB: Apply batch completed 090924 14:27:54 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 090924 14:27:54 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13) 090924 14:27:54 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 090924 14:27:54 mysqld ended Permissions: drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 24 10:38 mysqld Running on: Dell PE2950 w/64bit Processor I am also installing on an i386 machine and are not having these problems. Thanks, Bill
MySQL Startup error [root@tsvr ~]# ls -la /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ls: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid: No such file or directory Permissions for the directory are: [root@tsvr ~]# ls -la /var/run/mysqld total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 24 14:38 . drwx-----T 8 root root 4096 Sep 24 13:44 ..