strange mysql bug, possibly thread related

[Konstantinos Koukopoulos]

On Sat 03 Dec 2005 17:05, you wrote:
> >> Hello everybody, I recently rebooted my kfreebsd machine (due to
> >> power outage
> >> I'm afraid) and suddenly mysql hangs at startup. I've been trying
> >> to figure
> >> out what the problem is since yesterday but today I discovered
> >> that the
> >> problem goes away when I downgraded to the following packages:
> >>
> >> ii  libc0.1                  2.3-1+kbsd.11
> >> ii  kfreebsd-image-5.4-1-686 5.4-7
>
> I almost have the same problem, since booting into the new kernel
> +libc. It seems mysqld starts, but no client connection is possible.

Well I would say you are having the same problem. Perhaps I shouldn't have 
said "mysql hangs" but I meant what you describe. Connections will hang 
indefinetly or timeout and also mysql will not die with TERM.