I have recently installed 5.5.28-29.2 Percona Server (GPL), Release 29.2 in a Ubuntu 12.04 OS Desktop. I have tried to stop the server using different methods:
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This might not apply to this particular problem but here it goes anyways. I checked the error log ("/var/log/mysql/error.log") and saw that "explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=TRUE" was causing an error ("Unknown variable"). So I removed it from my.cnf ("/etc/mysql/my.cnf"), and ran "sudo start mysql" and it was back up and running. I hope this helps as well!