Mysql – Can’t Restart Mysqld

MySQLservice

I'm having trouble restarting the mysql service

[root ~]# service mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL:                                            [FAILED]
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL:                                            [FAILED]

From the mysqld.log

131004 10:34:49  mysqld started
131004 10:34:52  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655
131004 10:34:52 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use
131004 10:34:52 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?
131004 10:34:52 [ERROR] Aborting

131004 10:34:52  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
131004 10:34:54  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 43655
131004 10:34:54 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete

131004 10:34:54  mysqld ended

Processes

# ps -Af | grep mysql
root     24965     1  0 08:39 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --user=mysql
mysql    25018 24965 43 08:39 ?        00:57:11 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking --open-files-limit=65535 --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
root     27960 27143  0 10:50 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mysql

It almost seems like there's 2 mysqlds running, one of them zombie. How can I fix this?

Best Answer

try

ps -Af

to find the other mysqld running and then kill it.