Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld failed!

[mister_v]

Hi,

I have a problem with stopping mysql server.
I tried to stop it with

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/etc/init.d/mysql stop

as root; but it didn't work.

I get the error:

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Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld failed!

And it didn't stop, Why?

[chris]

I had a similar problem. I found that

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 mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

stops the server.

If it doesn't work ,you can kill the process:

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sudo kill [processid]

But it might be not save...