Comments on: upstart failing to manage mysqld on Ubuntu 10.04

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:04:24 +0000

Woohoo – thanks @ OP and Ryan!

fak3r — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:15:40 +0000

This worked for us after a day of staring at this and reading all the bug reports in Ubuntu forums trying to figure it out – thanks!

Simon G — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:35:21 +0000

Legend. Thank You!

Sergio — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:09:19 +0000

Thank you both, the author of the post and Ryan for sharing his solution I confirm it worked for me too.

Iain — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:58:12 +0000

Thanks Ryan.

Ryan — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:27:09 +0000

Run this:

sed -i -e ‘s/^exec \/usr\/sbin\/mysqld/exec sudo -u mysql \/usr\/sbin\/mysqld/’ /etc/init/mysql.conf

and reboot. Mysql will be 100% manageable via upstart scripts.

The issue was that the init scripts tried to run mysqld as user root, instead of user mysql. That sed one-liner there fixes the issue permanently.

You could use nano or vi on /etc/init/mysql.con as well. Just change line 26 to read:

exec sudo -u mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld

instead of

exec /usr/sbin/mysqld

Blago — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:23:15 +0000

God bless you. I would’ve waisted another 2 hours…