From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Running MySQL 3.32.32-1.7 After using the mysqladmin password command to secure the mysql installation with a database administrator password the service mysql stop command fails to shutdown the mysql server. I believe this is due to the fact that the init script uses the mysqladmin command to attempt to gracefully shutdown the database subsystem, but once a database administrator password has been set, mysqladmin must be provided with that password in order to execute the shutdown Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use mysqladmin password newpassword to secure your mysql installation 2. attempt to shutdown mysql with service mysql stop Actual Results: database subsystem will not shut down Expected Results: database subsystem should have shut down Although it hasn't happened to me yet, loss of data could occur if the database subsystem doesn't cleanly shut down when machine is being rebooted or powered off.
The database system will always shut down when given a kill signal, which the shutdown will do... to work around it: Configure authentication in /root/.my.cnf or upgrade to mysql-3.23.32-5 from Rawhide, which uses a different shutdown mechanism.
Please excuse my ignorance, but I am having the same problem. Documentation on your "workaround" of using my.cnf are slime to none so I can not seem to get that approach working. I also used "up2date" to check for an update to the mysql 3.23.32-1.7 I am running and nothing was reported. I then fired up gnorpm and found nothing more current than that version as well. Any additional info would be greatly appreciated.