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

Rename /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.lock & /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.lock.bck & /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.bck respectively and start mysqld. It works