Re: [arch-general] mysql won't start after upgrade

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:00 -0300, Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote:

Hi Scott,

Delete this file:

/var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0

If this not work, try read the following threads:

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,144428,241055#msg-241055 http://venublog.com/2008/04/23/simple-way-to-crash-innodb-plugin-10/ http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20851

I don't think deleting the innodb transaction log is a good thing to do. If something is in that log which hasn't been committed to the innodb pool file, those transactions are lost.