MySQL Daemon Lock issue

Question

Last night, my MySQL server went down unexpectedly. On attempting to restart (with service mysql restart - I\'m root) it merely hangs. With the mysql -u r

Answer 1

I just ran into this. The mysql install was a little weird and was missing /var/run/mysqld/

MySQLd was attempting to create the socket and lock file but the parent directory was missing. I simply created the directory

sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld

chowned it to mysql

sudo chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld

I was then able to start mysqld normally.