{"id":3106,"date":"2015-11-06T06:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2021-02-08T05:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:12:55","slug":"mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&#8221; error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes while restarting MySQL service, you may get a error as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]MySQL is running but PID file could not be found[\/wpfmb]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In our case, the issue was with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-restart-failed-the-server-quit-without-updating-pid-file\/\">pid file<\/a> and solution is:<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1) SSH into your server as a root user<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2) Create directory \/var\/run\/mysql<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">mkdir \/var\/run\/mysql<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3) Create \u00a0a file with name as mysqld.pid<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">touch mysqld.pid<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4) Change its ownership and group to\u00a0 mysql:mysql<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">chown mysql:mysql mysqld.pid<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5) Restart MySQL service and you will\u00a0no more see this error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes while restarting MySQL service, you may get a error as: [wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]MySQL is running but PID file could not be found[\/wpfmb] In our case, the issue was with the pid file and solution is: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel","category-linux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&quot; error - cPanel Plesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&quot;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&quot; error - cPanel Plesk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sometimes while restarting MySQL service, you may get a error as: [wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]MySQL is running but PID file could not be found[\/wpfmb] In our case, the issue was with the pid file and solution is: [...]Continue Reading...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Seemab Saleem\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Seemab Saleem\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/73d573cc7eaaf6625cf0dbd72191a648\"},\"headline\":\"&#8220;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&#8221; error\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-06T06:22:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-08T05:12:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\"},\"wordCount\":92,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Cpanel\",\"Linux\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"MySQL is running but PID file could not be found\\\" error - cPanel Plesk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-06T06:22:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-08T05:12:55+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg\",\"width\":140,\"height\":140},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8220;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&#8221; error\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/\",\"name\":\"cPanel Plesk\",\"description\":\"Blog on famous hosting control panels\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13\",\"name\":\"Farooq Omer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cpanelplesk.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cpanelplesk.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":44,\"caption\":\"Farooq Omer\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/73d573cc7eaaf6625cf0dbd72191a648\",\"name\":\"Seemab Saleem\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a87ff2e53b03e6839250e5278a6bd46?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a87ff2e53b03e6839250e5278a6bd46?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Seemab Saleem\"},\"description\":\"Linux Server Administrator, Web Hosting engineer. I'm dealing with Linux servers since 2014. I started this blog to share the work i love with the world . let me know if you need any assistance. Thanks!!\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/author\/cmb\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"MySQL is running but PID file could not be found\" error - cPanel Plesk","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"\"MySQL is running but PID file could not be found\" error - cPanel Plesk","twitter_description":"Sometimes while restarting MySQL service, you may get a error as: [wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]MySQL is running but PID file could not be found[\/wpfmb] In our case, the issue was with the pid file and solution is: [...]Continue Reading...","twitter_image":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Seemab Saleem"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/"},"author":{"name":"Seemab Saleem","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/73d573cc7eaaf6625cf0dbd72191a648"},"headline":"&#8220;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&#8221; error","datePublished":"2015-11-06T06:22:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-02-08T05:12:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/"},"wordCount":92,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg","articleSection":["Cpanel","Linux"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/","url":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/","name":"\"MySQL is running but PID file could not be found\" error - cPanel Plesk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg","datePublished":"2015-11-06T06:22:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-02-08T05:12:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mysql-e1446793662296.jpeg","width":140,"height":140},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/mysql-is-running-but-pid-file-could-not-be-found-error\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;MySQL is running but PID file could not be found&#8221; error"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/","name":"cPanel Plesk","description":"Blog on famous hosting control panels","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/c78ae1cf9451a09592fb9697d69c0c13","name":"Farooq Omer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cpanelplesk.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cpanelplesk.png","width":300,"height":44,"caption":"Farooq Omer"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/73d573cc7eaaf6625cf0dbd72191a648","name":"Seemab Saleem","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a87ff2e53b03e6839250e5278a6bd46?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a87ff2e53b03e6839250e5278a6bd46?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Seemab Saleem"},"description":"Linux Server Administrator, Web Hosting engineer. I'm dealing with Linux servers since 2014. I started this blog to share the work i love with the world . let me know if you need any assistance. Thanks!!","sameAs":["https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62"],"url":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/author\/cmb\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}