Hi Arjen, hi all, first of all thanks to all that responded to my problem so far.
> Does /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock exist, is it owned by user mysql? > (the error hints that mysqld.sock already exists? Rm it if you're sure > mysqld isn't running) I have tried this as well (that's now inside the vserver): # ls /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock -la ls: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock: No such file or directory # touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock # chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock # ls /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock -la -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 0 May 26 04:11 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Now I am starting MySQL with networking enabled: # mysqld --skip-innodb --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysql/mysqld.err --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp --language=/usr/share/mysql/english --skip-locking --set-variable=key_buffer=16M --set-variable=max_allowed_packet=1M --set-variable=thread_stack=128K --bind-address=10.0.1.20 --port=3306 --log=/var/log/mysql/mysql.log --console --log-warnings 050526 4:11:46 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Address already in use 050526 4:11:46 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ? 050526 4:11:46 Aborting 050526 4:11:46 mysqld: Shutdown Complete Now without any networking: # mysqld --skip-innodb --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysql/mysqld.err --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp --language=/usr/share/mysql/english --skip-locking --set-variable=key_buffer=16M --set-variable=max_allowed_packet=1M --set-variable=thread_stack=128K --skip-networking --log=/var/log/mysql/mysql.log --console --log-warnings 050526 4:12:11 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Address already in use 050526 4:12:11 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ? 050526 4:12:11 Aborting 050526 4:12:11 mysqld: Shutdown Complete The error message remains the same. I have another (dummy) vserver which I use to create new ones and inside this vserver MySQL is just running fine. Any more ideas? Thanks a lot and all the best, Werner. _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
