Re: [tlug] MySQL behaving strangely

["Birkir A. Barkarson" <birkirb@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Man... this is annoying. Why won't MySQL just die when I tell it to?

You're not being firm enough, the script is obviously not killing it so:

$ pkill -9 mysqld

and try again.
Just make sure that mysqld is not running when you try to do a reinstall.