MySql + FC4 + cpanel - very strange behaviour
 

Hi there,
I have a FC4 hosting server with cpanel and mysql (4.0.27-standard). Yesterday I made a critical cpanel update. Since then mysql doesn't work any more.
I doesn't start any more with /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start (run as root)
From logs:
Of course mysql user exist.

Then, I've tried to su myql and start mysqld_safe or mysqld manually. It starts, run for approximately 8-9 minutes and terminates. I've observed that this behaviour repeats every 8-9 minutes. This is very very strange. I don't have any cron job or something that runs every 8 minutes and stops mysql.

What do you say? Any idea? Could it be a mysql bug?

Thanks a lot for your help.

I'm not familiar with cpanel, but I think it's quite funny that you suspect mysql after you've updated cpanel. I would expect the update to be buggy.

Any additional info in the log files when MySQL stops?

cpanel has also updated mysql. no other info in logs. it shuts down and reports that can't change to user mysql

I don't like tools that not only update themselves but also update something else; personally I can not imagine that that has happened but OK.
I don't know what you exactly upgraded, but from the changelog on the cpanel site
And another point might be that selinux has a problem with your setup. Are you running it?

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There is a cpanel forum on the cpanel website. Did you check there?

In SSH , do Try it and tell me if it works.