[Tip] Couldn’t find MySQL manager or server

Today we ran into an issue with our secondary server which meant we had to reboot it. It is a Linux cPanel server.

When the server was rebooted we noticed that mysql was not running. When we tried to start it we got the following error message:

Couldn’t find MySQL manager or server

Cuttiong short the story, and after hunting through google searches we are pleased to have found a bug report that describes the problem and a proposed solution at the mysql bug tracker.

We are writing this blog post in the hope it might help someone else with the same problem.

The solution:

In the base /etc/my.cnf file in Mysql 5.0.27 (Thats our version) the basedir is set as /var/lib/ which is incorrect for our cPanel based server - we simply removed that line (or commented it out by placing a # in front of it) and restarted mysql = problem solved.