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

[Jan de Groot]

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.