From: Larry Martell Date: February 5 2012 12:57am Subject: mysql won't start with service, but starts with mysqld_safe List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/226717 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just installed mysql on centos 6.2. When I try to start it with service I g= et: #service mysqld start MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting mysqld: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 [FAILED] Nothing at all is written to the error log. But if I start it with mysqld_safe it comes up and works fine. Anyone know what could be going on here? -larry