Whether to kill "InnoDB: Starting shutdown"

[Stephen Martyak]

I had been loading multiple dump files when one of the files seemed to be hung so I killed the load process and the transaction began a rollback of the Innodb table load. I proceeded to load the other dump files while the rollback continued. I ended up killing the mysqd process and brought the server up under innodb_force_recovery = 3 in order to stop the rollback. Then, I deleted the table that had been marked rolling back. I went to bounce the server to remove the innodb_force_recovery = 3 from the my.cnf when I got into the state I am currently in: “InnoDB: Starting Shutdown”.

Is it sage to kill the mysqld process and let MySQL recover upon booting or should I wait for this InnoDB shutdown to complete. It's already been running in this state for 14+ hours.

running 4.1.4, innodb file per table