I had a power outage. Now MySQL's lock file won't go away. What do you suggest?
- by jasonspiro
I do freelance IT consulting for various clients, both in Toronto, Canada, and worldwide.
A client recently experienced a power failure. Now they've been having various problems with a Slackware 12.0.0 machine which also acts as a DNS server.
One problem is that they can't log into phpMyAdmin.
I tried stopping and restarting MySQL. But even…