Take one perfectly functional production server running 5.0.77. It has been
up and running under load for quite some time. I am using xtrabackup for
backups and suddenly three or four days ago backup stop running.
Investigation shows that the socket file '/tmp/mysql.sock' is no longer
there. The mysql server itself is still functioning .. you can specify
--host=localhost instead of --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock so the mysql client
uses tcp/ip instead of the socket file to connect to the server.
- Permissions did not change on the /tmp directory..I checked.
- There are no errors in the .err log.
- No cron jobs clearing out /tmp.
- SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%sock%' displays the proper socket location
Any thoughts? I have seen this type of thing occasionally before, but never
taken the time to really investigate. I would just restart the server. I
will end up having to do so in this case, but I would really like to find
out WHY this happened. Is this is bug in the server code? I can't come up
with any other explanation. I would love for this to be explainable!
thanks,
keith
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Chief Training Officer
Paragon Consulting Services
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