I can has weblog? » Ubuntu http://justin-hopkins.com/blog The thoughts and works of Justin Hopkins. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:49:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MySQL Shutdown Problem During Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) http://justin-hopkins.com/blog/2009/11/02/mysql-shutdown-problem-during-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala http://justin-hopkins.com/blog/2009/11/02/mysql-shutdown-problem-during-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:49:14 +0000 Justin http://justin-hopkins.com/blog/2009/11/02/mysql-shutdown-problem-during-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala More→]]> Immediately following the download of new packages for the upgrade to Karmic Koala, I noticed it had hung up while attempting to turn off services which were going to be upgraded.


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mysql stopping...
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It happened that MySQL was the hold up, and because killing the upgrade process seemed like a risky operation – I needed to find a way to move it along.

I wasn’t able to turn up any other posts from the community about this issue – so I decided to take the usual approach: Start killing process with fingers crossed and blog the outcome!

Just so happens I nailed it on the first try:


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$ ps aux | grep mysql
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root      3624  0.0  0.0   5452  1744 pts/7    S+   09:05   0:00 /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf shutdown

$ sudo kill -9 3624 #your pid would be different...
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The upgrader picked up and moved right along at that point. Hurray!

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