MySQL server goes away in XAMPP

Question

Hello, I am trying to install xampp 1.6.7 in a Red Hat Enterprise Edition. I followed the installation instructions and after that I started the stack with the command

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

And I get te usual response

XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

But when I check the status of the components of the stack MySQL is not running, and I get:

Version: XAMPP for Linux 1.5.5
Apache is running.
MySQL is not running.
ProFTPD is running.

This not always happens immediatly. Some times MySQL runs for a little while before crashing. I checked the logs and found nothing.

Thanks in advance!!

Edit:

the mysql log says

081002 10:41:22  mysqld started
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
081002 10:41:24  mysqld ended

mysql status says:

[root@localhost lampp]# bin/mysql status
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

and ps -ef | grep mysql yields nothing

Answer 1

What do

mysql status

and

ps aux | grep mysql

say?

Also a snippet of the logs might help as well.

Answer 2

When mysqld crashes (I think it just shuts down), you may need to configure log-error in my.cnf to see anything of real use. I am not sure how xampp is setup, but a simple find / -name "my.cnf" should point you to the location of that file.

Edit

You want to install libgcc. It should be available as an RPM for your platform. Let me know if this helps.