Erik Price wrote:
> All,
>
> Well, I solved the mystery of the missing Unix socket. It needs to be
> defined at the time the daemon is started with:
> --socket=/path/to/socket. Well, at least in my installation it does.
>
> But now I'm having the OPPOSITE problem -- shutting down the server
> (the daemon). I've searched the issue at length in the documentation,
> as well as in DuBois' "MySQL" (New Riders), and found quite a bit of
> information about shutting down the server. One option is to use
>
> /usr/local/mysql/bin:mysql$ mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
>
> But this one doesn't work for me, even though I am using the proper
> password and am the proper user. Executing this command just leaves me
> hanging at the prompt (and the only way to get out of the hang is to
> either suspend the job, which also has no effect).
Do you have a query still running? E.g. does mysqladmin -uroot -p
processlist show any locks? If so, can you kill the thread with mysqladmin
kill?
b.
