From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 03:34:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C59106566B for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 03:34:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [173.8.102.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7EF8FC20 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 03:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id o113YFg39869 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:34:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:34:15 -0600 From: John To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100131213415.A39592@starfire.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Subject: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:34:17 -0000 If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed, and I can't start the server. Not only can I not start the server, but it's not giving me a clue. I can't find anything anywhere. Not in /var/log/messages, not anywhere. When I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysqlserver start it says "Starting mysql.", pauses for several seconds (I don't see anything go by in "top") and then the script exits. At that point, one would expect, there's no /tmp/mysql.sock, there's nothing in messages or anywhere else. With nothing to go on, well, I don't know where to start. Any suggestions? -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG