mysql error

[The_cobra666]

-bash-3.00# service mysqld stop
ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!
-bash-3.00# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop
ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!
-bash-3.00# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart
ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!
Starting MySQL................................... ERROR!
-bash-3.00#


I can't start it up again :@, and I didn't even stop it :( it's still running according to the directadmin panel :(

[jmstacey]

Try killing it.

This should get you the PIDs:
ps ax | grep mysqld

[chatwizrd]

killall -9 mysql

or

ps xua | grep mysql | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill