Every time I start mysql, using /etc/init.d/mysql start or service mysql start, it always times out.

 * Starting MySQL (Percona Server) database server mysqld                   [fail] 

However, I can get into mysql. Just wanted to know if there is a problem with the install because it happens all the time, not a one off error.

mysql-error.log shows:

121214 11:25:56 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /data/mysql/
121214 11:25:56 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
121214 11:25:56 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
121214 11:25:56 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
121214 11:25:56 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
121214 11:25:56 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
121214 11:25:56 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 14.0G
121214 11:25:58 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
121214 11:26:01  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
121214 11:26:02 Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 1.1.8-rel29.2 started; log sequence number 9333955393950
121214 11:26:02 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '0.0.0.0'; port: 3306
121214 11:26:02 [Note]   - '0.0.0.0' resolves to '0.0.0.0';
121214 11:26:02 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.
121214 11:26:02 [Note] Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'mysql-bin.005163' at position 624540946, relay log '/data/mysql/mysql-relay-bin.000043' position: 624541092
121214 11:26:02 [Note] Slave I/O thread: connected to master '[email protected]:3306',replication started in log 'mysql-bin.005180' at position 823447620
121214 11:26:02 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
121214 11:26:02 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.28-29.2-log'  socket: '/data/mysql/mysql.sock'  port: 3306  Percona Server (GPL), Release 29.2