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dreamer.redeemer 12-07-2010 03:57 PM  mysql plugin directory
vanished? This server (running suse 11.1) was approaching a year
of uptime when last night it became unresponsive @ max cpu and
was given a hard reset. Suddenly mysql no longer works, it fails
to secure a socket and shuts down. The error log says it can't
load a bunch of stuff in /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/ because there's
no such directory, then aborts after the unknown option --skip-
federated. If I comment out skip-federated in /etc/my.cnf mysql
will start, but users get access denied--I can't say if the same
is true for root, I don't have root credentials for mysql.  This
is all very funny because I need to finish/present my final
project in a few hours and also happen to be the server admin,
yet haven't been able to dig myself out of this hole, 5 hours
has produced virtually no progress. Any help would be profoundly
appreciated.  dreamer.redeemer 12-07-2010 11:27 PM  As I
suspected, I w