Ah...
Do you have permissions over the mysql directories?
Can you start safe_mysqld as root? (purely for problem solving
purposes ;)
And of course - are your databases in /var/lib/mysql?
james
Nick Wilson wrote:
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> * and then Gerald Clark declared....
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>>>Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-)
>>>It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with databases
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>>>from /var/lib/mysql' and just hangs....
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>>It just wrote that message over the command prompt.
>>It is not hung.
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>>Just hit enter.
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> Nope, it's hung, I get nothing and not even CTRL-C will stop it, I have
> to physically close the terminal.
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