[Yum] yum breaks mysql

[Paul Rennix]

no, no mysqld process is/was running.

This has been quite a pain.  I've been googling this for 2 days, installed,
uninstalled, reinstalled, checked permissions and tried every suggestion I
could find...

I'm so frustrated I'm about to reinstall the system from scratch, I'll
likely fight with this for another day before that becomes the easier
option - I just have a lot on that server and it would take awhile to
rebuild.

this is the version:
mysql  Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)

tia

-Paul



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com>
To: <yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Yum] yum breaks mysql


On 01/24/2005 08:12:42 AM, Ian Kaufman wrote:
> This is not a YUM issue per se, but rather how the mysql
> RPM was installed.
>
> Is there a mysqld running right now? Have you rebooted?
> The error is usually seen when the old daemon is still
> running. Also, the start/stop scripts might have changed
> enough that the new script cannot stop the old daemon, or
> the old script cannot start the new one.
>
> I've been through similar issues before.
>

Yes - that might be it. Packagers of daemons should stop the service of
the old version before the new package is installed - even though rpm
has the facilities for that, often they don't.

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