[PLUG] MySQL server cyclic restarts

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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I'm developing a web app on a Linode VM running a LAMP stack.  When I
look at the syslog I see this bizarre behavior repeated about every
100 seconds day and night:

Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 init: mysql main process (4210) terminated with
status 1
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 init: mysql main process ended, respawning
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4304]: Upgrading MySQL
tables if necessary.
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4307]:
/usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: the '--basedir' option is always ignored
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4307]: Looking for
'mysql' as: /usr/bin/mysql
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4307]: Looking for
'mysqlcheck' as: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4307]: This installation
of MySQL is already upgraded to 5.1.41, use --force if you still need
to run mysql_upgrade
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4318]: Checking for
insecure root accounts.
Mar 15 17:28:50 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4322]: Triggering
myisam-recover for all MyISAM tables
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 init: mysql main process (4298) terminated with
status 1
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 init: mysql main process ended, respawning
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4371]: Upgrading MySQL
tables if necessary.
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4374]:
/usr/bin/mysql_upgrade: the '--basedir' option is always ignored
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4374]: Looking for
'mysql' as: /usr/bin/mysql
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4374]: Looking for
'mysqlcheck' as: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4374]: This installation
of MySQL is already upgraded to 5.1.41, use --force if you still need
to run mysql_upgrade
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4381]: Checking for
insecure root accounts.
Mar 15 17:30:30 li282 /etc/mysql/debian-start[4389]: Triggering
myisam-recover for all MyISAM tables

The MySQL log and error log are empty (clearly not enough 'setting' on
that!)

I tried google but did not find anything that relates to this.

Before I go cranking up logging levels and start breaking things...
does this look familiar to anyone?
Any hints of places to start?

I think of starting at /etc/inittab but, surprise surprise, Ubuntu
does not have an inittab.  Sigh.

Thanks,
Eric

PS apologies for html email but wide log files come across much better
for me without the 80 char line wrap and I hope they do for you too.

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#  Eric Lucas
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