Author: Philip Stubbs Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mysql not starting at boot with Ubuntu Karmic
2009/10/15 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>: > Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have updated one of my machines to ubuntu karmic. Now when it boots,
>> mysql is not started. Once it is up and running, I can run "sudo
>> /etc/init.d/mysql start" and it starts fine. I have tried purging
>> mysql and re-installing. I have checked to make sure the links are in
>> the rc directories. I even used the update-rc.d script to remove and
>> re-instate the links.
>>
>> Does anybody know why this may be happening? Any pointers to finding the cause?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
>
> My (Jaunty) /etc/rc2.d looks like this as far as mysql is concerned:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2009-01-14 17:44 S17mysql-ndb-mgm ->
> ../init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-01-14 17:44 S18mysql-ndb ->
> ../init.d/mysql-ndb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-01-14 17:44 S19mysql -> ../init.d/mysql
>
> It occurs to me that it could be starting up and then failing on account
> of something else not being ready that it needs.
>
> That said, I don't know a great deal about mysql or its dependencies, so
> it's purely guesswork based on the fact that it starts okay manually
> after the machine has booted.
>
> Sean
On of the side effects of running beta software. Turned on this
evening, and all seems to be fine :-)
