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Description of problem:
After installing the latest mysql-server package available from the
RedHat Network Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for x86) Extras
channel, MySQL does not start up properly anymore.

This is what happens when I attempt to start the mysql server:
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/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL:                                            [FAILED]
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Here is what is in my log file after trying the start the mysql server:
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041028 11:45:48  mysqld started
Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set.
If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line
skip-innodb
to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf
or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add to the [mysqld]
section, for example,
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
But to get good performance you should adjust for your hardware
the InnoDB startup options listed in section 2 at
http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html
/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections
A mysqld process already exists at  Thu Oct 28 11:46:04 EDT 2004
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This has happened on two of my machines, both of which are fully
up-to-date.  Downgrading to mysql-server-3.23.58-1.i386.rpm solves the
problem, but it would be nice to have the latest version working.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mysql-server-3.23.58-2.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade to the latest version of mysql-server
2.attempt to start mysql server by running "/etc/init.d/mysqld start"
3.
    

Actual Results:  I received this error message:

Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL:                                            [FAILED]


Expected Results:  It should have started properly.


Additional info: