InnoDB: Attempted to open a previously opened tablespace

Question

I have been working on a problem for a few days now. Our local mediawiki page that sits on our box account, destroyed itself and we\'ve been working to get it online. Using

Answer 1

"Attempted to open a previously opened tablespace." -- That smells like one of these:

• There are two copies of MySQL and both are trying to run.
• Windows failed to release an 'open' on one of MySQL's files. I used to see that problem. It was cured by rebooting Windows; later by upgrading Windows.