Walker, Brian wrote:
> I'm at wits end here, I've been through the documentation multiple times,
> asked questions on this list, but I still cannot get this server running.
> I've restarted the server and everything.
>
> The only thing I know is that the mysqld daemon crashes when I try to start
> it. I could not have another one running since I couldn't start the thing
> to begin with!
>
> There is nothing using 3306 because I can telnet to it (per the manuals
> instruction on this error message)
>
Well, if you can telnet to 3306, then something is runnin on it.
Are you sure it is not already running?
what does
ps -ef | grep mysqld
show you?