Recently, I experienced an issue with a MySQL instance running on a CentOS 5.4 host whereby applications were unable to contact the daemon. This was despite there being being no network issues and the operating system not reporting any excessive load. Restarting MySQL fixed the issue and allowed the applications to continue working. While investigating […]
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Ubuntu MySQL Upgrade Issue
I recently had to assist a friend who is hosting sites on an Ubuntu VPS; he found himself unable to connect to local MySQL instance as root.Obviously, my first suggestion was to simply reset the password using the –skip-grant-tables trick that’s well documented elsewhere online. However, attempting to stop the MySQL instance using the command […]