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bjesus

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 49

[solved] MySQLd fails to load

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Solved by reinstalling the package...
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Hey,
Ever since the last mysqld update, it won't load for me.

First I checked the error logs, but it doesn't have anything usful.

# tail -n 2 /var/lib/mysql/myhostname.err
090729 07:02:06 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
090729 07:02:06 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/myhostname.pid ended

But dmesg is a bit more interesting:

mysqld[5922] general protection ip:94b9ca sp:7fff769940e0 error:0 in mysqld[400000+818000]

Frankly though, I have no idea what this 'general protection' message means.

I tried that chmod thing in the wiki, no help.
Running mysql 5.1.36-1 on Arch64.
Also note that even running 'mysqld' alone, 'mysqld --help' or 'mysqld --anything-else' does the same: it dumps a core file, quits and dmesg shows that line.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

Yo'av

Last edited by bjesus (2009-07-29 11:13:08)

eazy

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 97

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Re: [solved] MySQLd fails to load

I'm running Arch64 and your same version of MySQL and it works.
I've seen lots of core dumps with various versions of MySQL that I won't be surprised if it were an upstream bug.

Try opening an bug report at http://bugs.mysql.com/

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bjesus

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 49

Re: [solved] MySQLd fails to load

Thanks.
I was just about to do that, then I thought - well, let's try to reinstall.
Somehow it did the trick.

Too bad for me, I spend hours yesterday trying to debug that without trying to reinstall.

At least it worked.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: [solved] MySQLd fails to load

Hello bjesus!

Always try to reinstall a not working package, before complain here

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