Re: mysqld service won't start after server move

[Phil Pillera]

You're absolutely right, I typo'd the command when I typed it in here but typed it correctly on the box. On the machine (for those who may have googled and found this page) I typed "chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql".

What it ended up being was SELinux. I feel like a moron. I NEVER use SEL (and I know, I should), but for whatever reason I didn't disable it on this particular server. Rather than just disabling it, I ran a "restorecon -Rv /var/lib/mysql", then "mysqladmin shutdown", and "systemctl start mysqld.service" and it fired right up.

Thanks for reminding me to pull my head out of my butt, all is working well!