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Why can’t I stop the MySQL service on Debian?

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Mar 15, 20268496 views

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I just tried to upgrade from debian squeeze to unstable by replacing 'squeeze' with 'unstable' in . The upgrade went smoothly except for MySQL, which failed because it couldn't stop MySQL. simply returns that it failed, but if I try to get the status with it gives me this error: MySQL is running fi…

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me@debian:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'debian-sys-ma…

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Try this: and look for the password listed under both the and sections being the original MySQL root password That's the fix and this is the reasoning behind it, if you're interested.

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Why can’t I stop the MySQL service on Debian?

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