What happens when mysql is restarted?
I tried to restart MySQL through WHM and now its taking way too long to restart, the progress bar is still showing. Show What can I do? I can still access the server via SSH but I cannot connect to MySQL. This is urgent as my online store is now down. Will restarting the HTTP Server (Apache) help?
BenMorel 6501 gold badge11 silver badges35 bronze badges asked Jan 10, 2017 at 21:50
2 Without seeing any additional information, here is my best guess why MySQL is trying to shutdown for a long time: I suspect mysqld no longer has a socket file. About 1.5 years ago, I answered mysql restart issue after move database. I learned that mysqld depends on the presence of a socket file. If there is no socket, mysqld just draws lots of dots on the screen and then gives up. In that old post, I wrote three instructions
Please go do this now ... I have discussed MySQL behavior with the socket file (or lack of it) 4 years ago (See my older post mysql restart won't kill child processes on CentOS)
answered Jan 10, 2017 at 22:08
RolandoMySQLDBARolandoMySQLDBA 175k31 gold badges303 silver badges494 bronze badges 3 Any "requested" shutdown sequence in MySQL (short of Note: if you are shutting down the server for an upgrade, then don't use this process; instead, follow the process detailed in this answer. Otherwise, if you're just restarting an otherwise-healthy server so that you can change a read-only global variable or something similar, here is a graceful path: First, enable
Next, instruct the server to close all open tables as soon as no currently-running queries are referencing them. This step also has nothing to do with the graceful shutdown, but it will make the subsequent step go faster:
The
This statement flushes all tables (hence the advantage of getting some of that out of the way less disruptively with the prior step) and acquires a global (server-wide) read-only lock on them. You can't have a global read lock until every currently running "write" query (i.e., pretty much everything but Your prompt doesn't return until you hold this global lock, so every query that is in progress when you request the lock is able to finish, and you know they're finished, because you get the prompt back. Any subsequent queries that try to write anything to any table will just stall, changing no data, waiting indefinitely for the lock, until...
Resist the temptation to close this.
This idle console prompt is what's holding the global lock for you. Lose this, lose the lock. From another console window, restart MySQL the way you normally would, either with initscripts (e.g., your local variant of Should I restart MySQL?MySQL should not be restarted regularly, as restarting it will cause a service outage.
Can I restart MySQL?First, open the Run window by using the Windows+R keyboard. Second, type services. msc and press Enter : Third, select the MySQL service and click the restart button.
How do I stop MySQL from restarting?How to Start, Stop, and Restart MySQL Server. To start MySQL server: sudo service mysqld start.. To stop MySQL server: sudo service mysqld stop.. To restart MySQL server: sudo service mysqld restart.. What causes MySQL to crash?The most common cause of crashes in MySQL is that it stopped or failed to start due to insufficient memory. To check this, you will need to review the MySQL error log after a crash. First, attempt to start the MySQL server by typing: sudo systemctl start mysql.
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