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Hi all,

I'm looking for a howto on copying my existing server configuration (Lucid) to a newer,faster, higher capacity server. My existing server is up-to-date, functioning well, but it's an...

When I tried: touch var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

I got: touch: cannot touch `/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' : No such file or directory

When I tried: /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql

I got: ...

Man, what a pain. The upgrade from Karmic to Lucid killed mySQL so hard I still can't resurrect it. Nothing seems to work, and no one seems to have any solutions! AAAARGH!

Yes, please help. I have the same problem, and it's huge! My LAMP server (Karmic Koala) was upgraded this morning to Lucid, and MySQL fails.

If I type: /etc/init.d/mysql start

Then I see...