[SOLVED] Can't Start MySQL after upgrading to 5.1.41-3

Question

I can't start mysqld with 'mysqld start'.Here is my mysqld output:
[ahao@sky ~]$ mysqld start
091125 18:33:48 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
091125 18:33:48 [Note] Plugin 'ndbcluster' is disabled.
091125 18:33:48  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233
mysqld: Too many arguments (first extra is 'start').
Use --verbose --help to get a list of available options
091125 18:33:48 [ERROR] Aborting
091125 18:33:48  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
091125 18:33:49  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 44233
091125 18:33:49 [Note] mysqld: Shutdown complete
This is my /var/lib/ complete with permission settings:
[ahao@sky ~]$ cd /var/lib ; ls -al
total 84
drwxr-xr-x 20 root      root      4096 2009-11-25 18:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root      root      4096 2009-11-25 13:51 ..
drwxrwx---  2 root      policykit 4096 2009-05-10 09:10 PolicyKit
drwxr-xr-x  2 policykit root      4096 2009-05-10 09:10 PolicyKit-public
drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root      4096 2009-09-19 12:19 bluetooth
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-09-16 22:09 dbus
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-11-23 17:38 dhcpcd
drwxrwxrwt  2 root      root      4096 2009-07-19 18:17 ex
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-09-16 22:38 hwclock
drwxr-x---  2 root      locate    4096 2009-10-22 06:55 locate
-rw-r--r--  1 root      root       462 2009-09-20 00:02 logrotate.status
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-09-17 09:14 misc
drwxr-x---  2 root      locate    4096 2009-11-25 18:09 mlocate
drwxrwxrwx  4 mysql     mysql     4096 2009-11-25 18:33 mysql
drwxr-xr-x  6 root      root      4096 2009-09-07 08:54 nfs
drwxr-xr-x  4 root      root      4096 2009-11-25 18:08 pacman
drwx------  3 root      root      4096 2009-11-21 03:30 polkit-1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2008-09-06 14:33 rarian
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-09-17 09:14 syslog-ng
drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root      4096 2009-10-19 20:10 wicd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 2009-11-21 02:35 xkb
/etc/mysql/my.cnf is out-of-the-box
What seems to be the problem here? Please shed some light...thank you
Last edited by akiglobal (2009-11-26 07:41:00)

Answer 1

How silly of me.....first of all...I entered 'mysqld start', I should have just entered 'mysqld', second of all, I didn't change the file permission on /var/run/mysqld. I change /var/run/mysqld file permission into 'chmod 777 /var/run/mysqld -R', after that mysql works!