I've bee tearing my hair out trying to get MySQL 5 running on CentOS 5 but I've had hardly any luck. If I leave everything as default, and launch the initial install it works a charm, but if I tell the my.cnf to use a different drive to store the data, I continuously get the "Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon." error.
My.cnf is as follows:
[mysqld]
datadir=/database/mysql
socket=/database/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
old_passwords=1
log-error=/database/log/mysqld.log
long_query_time = 10
log_slow_queries = /database/log/mysql-slow.log
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 8M
innodb_file_per_table
skip-bdb
set-variable = local-infile=0
[mysqld_safe]
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
The folders all have the right privileges and the mysqld.log doesn't have any error messages in there, according to it, MySQL launced successfuly. Oh, and /database is a mounted drive, but even if I trial it on a local directory, I get the same error.
Any ideas what could be going wrong? i've seriously waisted more than 5 hours on this now :(
CHEERS