Atomicorp

I dont think the i386 packages matter here. This isnt a packaging problem at all. The daemon is dying because someone/thing is shutting it down, theres a deeper problem with the system (bad drives, memory, etc), or maybe even a bad my.cnf (overtuned). [mysqld] default-storage-engine=MYISAM general_...

Yes, it's a Plesk server (unfortunately ... nothing but headaches). But I don't think we have watchdog running, and there isn't such a log at the location you have noted. We are running on Plesk 9.x

Well, checking the yum log, it looks like there have been i386 packages in there for a while, and we only recently began experiencing major problems (previously, mysql crashed once in a great while for no known reason, but for the past couple weeks it's crashing many times per day). The issue with t...

It looks like maybe you're right? Our system is 64 bit; should these i386 packages be removed then? Installed Packages mysql.x86_64 5.5.20-2.el5.art installed mysql-devel.i386 5.5.20-2.el5.art installed mysql-devel.x86_64 5.5.20-2.el5.art installed mysql-libs.i386 5.5.20-2.el5.art installed mysql-li...

mysqld just crashed again and there's no shutdown query showing up in the log (although I'm not sure it would?)

I'm pretty sure that's not happening, but I'll turn on query logging temporarily to find out ...

scott wrote:Does it stop right away when you try to start it?

No. It starts fine, other than the initial warning message. It shuts down later, at what seem to be random times. Sometimes a few minutes, sometimes a few hours.

MySQL is shutting down at seemingly random intervals. Please see most recent bit of the log, below. What could possibly be causing this? 120305 09:35:02 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 120305 9:35:02 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 120305 9:35:02 InnoDB: ...