Re: Cant start mysql

[Russell Dyer]

If you haven't solved this yet, you need to gather more information to figure it out or for some to help you here. Edit your options file /etc/my.cnf and make sure you have the error log set up. If not add a line like the last one here to the server section:

[mysqld]
...
log-error = /var/db/mysql/error.log

After making this entry, try restarting the MySQL server. After it fails, open up the error log file and see what it says. If you can't resolve your problem from reading it, then post the error message in this posting thread here.

Russell Dyer

Author of "MySQL in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly 2005).