mysqld refuse to die

[Jack Chen]

Hi All,

Please help me with this problem:

For some reason, I could not bring down my mysqld by running 

mysqld stop

An error message indicate: fail

What's going on? 

Thanks,

Jack

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Jack Chen, Stein Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724 
Tel: [phone]; e-mail: chenn@stripped
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