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Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently my home server (Debian stable; file-, web- and mail-server) had 'issues' > which it turns out was due to a failing PSU... kept overheating due to a dead fan > and it would powercycle ever few minutes. Needless to say this had a somewhat > detrimental effect on the filesystem(s). Performed a motherboardectomy and > transplant and now have a server up and running again quite nicely, bar for one > ickle thing... MySQL. The init script merely fails with "Starting MySQL database > server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!". I have to admit that I know > almost nothing about MySQL so I have no idea where to start the troubleshooting > process. > > Any pointers (bar RTFM) would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers. > Grant. > anything in the log files that would suggest why this is failing to fire up ?? I had a similar thing recently, turned out to be a crashed table, which mysql fixed.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html