<HTML><HEAD><META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv="Content-Type"><style type="text/css"></style></HEAD><BODY><br ><br >thanks for your reply. I had to reinstall the binary distro of mysql-5.1.37 once again and things are fine now.<br ><br >with thanks<br >s.mahalingam<br ><br ><font size="2" face="Arial"><TABLE STYLE="border-color: blue; border-left: 1px solid blue; padding-left: 5px;"><tbody><TR><TD><br ><strong><em>-- Original Message --</em></strong><br >From: raj10 sangvikar <rajusa10@yahoo.com><br >To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com,<br > "Discussions about Red Hat Network \(rhn.redhat.com\)"<br > <rhn-users@redhat.com><br >Cc: rhn-users@redhat.com<br >Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:32:16 -0700 (PDT)<br >Subject: Re: [rhn-users] start up issue with mysql daemon<br ><br ><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"><tbody><TR><TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;"><DIV>It appears that mysqld is not running. have you installed the server and clients both ? </DIV> <DIV>two possibilities: 1) either the selinux policy OR permissions issue.</DIV> <DIV>-Raj<br ><br >--- On <strong>Tue, 9/1/09, Mahalingam Subramaniam <em><smal@ccmb.res.in></em></strong> wrote:<br ></DIV> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><br >From: Mahalingam Subramaniam <smal@ccmb.res.in><br >Subject: [rhn-users] start up issue with mysql daemon<br >To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com<br >Cc: rhn-users@redhat.com<br >Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 1:01 AM<br ><br > <DIV ID="yiv154358716"> Dear All<br ><br >While trying to install mysql ( binary distro mysql-5.1.37.tar.gz ) on RHEL 5.2 platform, I am unable to start off the mysql daemon which throws an error message as follows:<br ><br ># /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start<br >Starting MySQL.Manager of pid-file quit without updating fi [FAILED]<br ><br ># /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S64mysql start<br >Starting MySQL.Manager of pid-file quit without updating fi[FAILED]<br ><br >]# mysqladmin version<br >mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed<br >error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'<br >Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!<br ><br >Help to debug above mentioned errors are highly regarded and appreciated. <br ><br >with regards<br >s.mahalingam<br ><br ><br ></DIV><br >-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br ><br > <DIV CLASS="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br >rhn-users mailing list<br ><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://us.mc578.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhn-users@redhat.com" YMAILTO="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</A><br ><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</A></DIV></blockquote></TD></TR></tbody></TABLE><br > _______________________________________________<br >rhn-users mailing list<br >rhn-users@redhat.com<br >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</TD></TR></tbody></TABLE></font></BODY></HTML>