On Wednesday 09 February 2005 17:47, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Greetings , > > I run into a rather strange situation . While boot i get the message > > "Timeout error occured trying to start MySQL Daemon" . > > Starting MySQL Daemon [FAILED] > > Before the error get's printed there is a delay of about 5 seconds . The mysqld startup script is different than most as in it starts the daemon process and then sits and spins for 10 seconds waiting or it to come up. Most likely you have either very little resources so your mysqld takes longer than that to come up, or you're allocating some large junks of memory so the initialization takes longer... For more detail check /etc/init.d/mysqld starting with line 38... Peter.