An alternative explanation is that you were bitten by Debian bug #415124 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415124). The same thing happened to me this morning. Do you use unattended-upgrade?
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #415124 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415124 -- ntpdate can cause mysqld to shut down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520615 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
