On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 18:47 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > On 12/13/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > CentOS 4.2 > > > > [root at srv1 certs]# service mysqld start > > Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. > > Starting MySQL: [FAILED] > > [root at srv1 certs]# rm -fr /var/lib/mysql/* > > [root at srv1 certs]# service mysqld start > > Initializing MySQL database: [ OK ] > > Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. > > Starting MySQL: [FAILED] > > > > I note that I now have some more <defunct> (zombie) chvt processes > > > > WTF? > > An apt question. what's in the logs? Also, does your hostname resolve? ---- sure # host srv1.clsurvey.com srv1.clsurvey.com has address 192.168.1.1 # cat /var/log/mysqld.log 051213 16:53:55 mysqld started /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ibdajdMj' (Errcode: 13) 051213 16:53:55 InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file; errno: 13 051213 16:53:55 [ERROR] Can't init databases 051213 16:53:55 [ERROR] Aborting 051213 16:53:55 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete 051213 16:53:55 mysqld ended I think you're on to something... # ls -ld /tmp drwxr-xr-x 51 craig Administrators 4096 Dec 13 16:53 /tmp [root at srv1 certs]# chown root:root /tmp [root at srv1 certs]# chmod 1777 /tmp [root at srv1 certs]# service mysqld start Starting MySQL: [ OK ] I would never knowingly change owner/permissions on /tmp I don't know how that came to pass. Thanks - good catch. Everytime I tried to run less /var/log/mysqld.log, it would tell me that it's a binary file but I didn't try to 'cat' it until I was going to post it to the list. Thanks Craig