Public bug reported: I updated to oneiric and mysqld does not start. It seems it can't create the socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
What the log /var/log/mysql/error.log says: === 11017 9:44:12 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 111017 9:44:12 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 8.0M 111017 9:44:12 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 111017 9:44:12 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 363147242 111017 9:44:12 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 111017 9:44:12 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ? 111017 9:44:12 [ERROR] Aborting === But, I have the appropiate permisions: === $ ls -la /var/run/mysqld total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql root 40 2011-10-17 09:29 . drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 1040 2011-10-17 09:17 .. === And I checked mysqld runs as the appropiate user: === mysql 12938 1 2 09:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld === Trying mysql_safe: === $ sudo mysqld_safe [sudo] password for manolinux: 111017 09:49:26 mysqld_safe Logging to syslog. 111017 09:49:26 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 111017 09:49:32 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/min.pid ended === ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: mysql-server-5.1 5.1.58-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 17 09:38:02 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_ES:en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: mysql-5.1 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (2 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.apparmor.d.usr.sbin.mysqld: 2010-12-27T16:46:29 ** Affects: mysql-5.1 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to mysql-5.1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876268 Title: Mysqld does not start: Bind on unix socket: Permission denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.1/+bug/876268/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs