-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/12 4:22 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Larry Martell > <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Tait Clarridge <tait at taiter.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 17:15 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: >>>> Just installed mysql on centos 6.2. When I try to start it >>>> with service I get: >>>> >>>> #service mysqld start MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting >>>> mysqld: [FAILED] >>>> >>>> Nothing at all is written to the error log. >>>> >>>> But if I start it with mysqld_safe it comes up and works >>>> fine. >>>> >>>> Anyone know what's going on here? >>> >>> Did it hang while trying to start? Or was it an immediate >>> failure. >> >> Immediate - the 'MySQL Daemon failed to start' message comes out >> right away. >> >> I was curious as to exactle what 'service mysqld start' did (as >> opposed to mysqld_safe, which works) so I traced it. Really >> didn't glean anything useful from it - perhaps someone will see >> something meaningful: I think you want strace -f to Follow the process's children. - -- Duncan Hutty http://www.allgoodbits.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8v62oACgkQCFuTFybf1wo+2wCaA7nPOXV2aK6K+j4cCL0wmbhh DiwAni+uPuwS8WK6VmXSzwu+VkVNpae3 =T966 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----