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Re: [LUG] Troubleshooting MySQL... failure to start

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently my home server (Debian stable; file-, web- and mail-server) had 'issues' 
> which it turns out was due to a failing PSU... kept overheating due to a dead fan 
> and it would powercycle ever few minutes.  Needless to say this had a somewhat 
> detrimental effect on the filesystem(s).  Performed a motherboardectomy and 
> transplant and now have a server up and running again quite nicely, bar for one 
> ickle thing... MySQL.  The init script merely fails with "Starting MySQL database 
> server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!".  I have to admit that I know 
> almost nothing about MySQL so I have no idea where to start the troubleshooting 
> process.
> 
> Any pointers (bar RTFM) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers.
> Grant.
> 
anything in the log files that would suggest why this is failing to fire 
up ??

I had a similar thing recently, turned out to be a crashed table, which 
mysql fixed..

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