Hello,

I have a new Slackware 11 installation. I am setting it up as a LAMP server. The boot dialog shows the mysql server start and then stop. Why? How do I fix this.

Thanks in advance for your help!

How did you install your MySQL instance?

Can you start it manually, or does it crash then as well?

I installed it as part of the installtion process.

ps -ef shows cups, rpc, sshd, inted, sendmail, and httpd all running

I just assumed that mysql would work the same way as I did nothing to get these other servers to start other than select them as part of the installation questions, mysql was one of those questions as well.

thanks,

RCS

Ok... all I can surmise then is that you have some form of invalid installation. This is what usually (in my limited experience) causes a MySQL instance of not being able to start up.

I installed my MySQL manually (even though I also selected it to be installed as part of my Fedora Core 6 install) and I have no problems with it. But there are certain things (detailing in a MySQL package's INSTALL.TXT file) that must be done before it will run - I guess that your automatic installation didn't do these steps...

I'd advise you in that case to get a MySQL "standard" install / binary package, unpack it and install it manually. That way it is virtually certain it will work first time.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=2495569

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Happy slacking
--Lawrence

did you do this mysql_install_db thing?

cause if not mysqld is not starting.
just in case you did not do:

(slackware comes with a slackware user)
then logout and restart (hope you did a chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld)