Morning,

Waking up this morning to see my server has exploded was not much fun. All sorts of services had just stopped. It was weird until I saw the main system drive was almost full. Less than 20 Megs remained. After some pruning of files and restarting of services everything seemed to be coming back online. Then I tried to access web based services and no go.

Webserver is up and running but I’m getting a “Error establishing Database Connection Error” So I head over to server admin and check on Mysql. It shows a status of “Shutting Down”. The logs are showing me the error from 3 days ago when we ran out of space. But nothing else. I try to restart the mysqld but there is none. Kind of at a loss at the moment on where to go from here.

How can I force mysql to either shutdown or restart to get all the webservices back up and running?