Bug #50223 mysql is not running but lock exists
Submitted: 11 Jan 2010 9:30 Modified: 7 Dec 2016 16:14
Reporter: lalit gera Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.64-enterprise MySQL Enterprise Server (Commercial) OS:Linux (Red Hat EnterPrise edition )
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[11 Jan 2010 9:30] lalit gera 
Description:
i am getting error "mysql is not running but lock exists"

How to repeat:
I mysql is running and power down the system. After restart the system mysql gave this error when checking by /etc/service/mysql status
[11 Jan 2010 10:31] Valeriy Kravchuk 
What exact OS and MySQL server version, x.y.z, you are talking about?
[11 Jan 2010 12:56] lalit gera 
Mysql version : 5.0.64-enterprise MySQL Enterprise Server (Commercial)
Linux : Linux version 2.6.9-55.ELsmp
[11 Jan 2010 23:24] Sveta Smirnova 
Thank you for the feedback.

This looks like not a bug, but MySQL PID file left after system restart. (I assume MySQL server was not stopped properly?) Please check if PID file exists while MySQL server is not running and if yes, remove PID file.
[12 Feb 2010 0:00] Bugs System 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[7 Dec 2016 16:14] Yngve Svendsen 
Posted by developer:
 
This relates to EOL (no longer supported) versions of MySQL Server. Thus closing.