MySQL Job failed to start

Question

I\'m on Kubuntu 12.04, and after installing mysql via an apt-get (mysql ver: 5.5.35), i\'m trying to start mysql service, but I got this error:

sudo servi

Answer 1

To help others who do not have a full disk to troubleshoot this problem, first inspect your error log (for me the path is given in my /etc/mysql/my.cnf file):

tail /var/log/mysql/error.log

My problem turned out to be a new IP address allocated after some network router reconfiguration, so I needed to change the bind-address variable.