MySQL on Debian versions is configured differently than the native local MySQL plugin so you will be disappointed when your password on the mysql client fails by default. Here is how you reset the MySQL root password the proper and "working way" #first we gracefully stop mysql sudo systemctl stop mysql; #then we forcefully kill any mysqld process just in case sudo killall -9 mysqld mysqld_safe;........

mysql reset root password. Oops I can't remember my MySQL root password! [root@centos7test etc]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) Stop logger if running/existing: Check if logger is running for mysqld, if so we have to kill it, otherwise when we kill mariadb it may ju........

This happened on Centos for no apparent reason with no obvious issue in the logs. Data could be read fine but not written (possibly due to some corruption or out of memory issue in the OpenVZ container is the best guess). All mysql update and insert queries failed freezing without any error log on any database and table. Tried to restart: service mysqld restart Timeout error occurred trying to stop MySQL........

The solution is simple but strange, if you copy your /var/lib/mysql directory to another server and think it will work, be sure to check if you have /var/log/mysql and binary log files. If you do, the server will not work and will give you errors like below and crash without the proper log files. UPDATE user SET password=password("newpass") WHERE user='root'; flush privileges; ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server durin........

170110 5:35:23 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Normal shutdown 170110 5:35:23 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events 170110 5:35:23 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 170110 5:35:24 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 12765401 170110 5:35:24 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete 170110 05:35:24 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended........

service mysqld start MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting mysqld: [FAILED] mysqld_safe cat /var/lib/mysql/server.err 130917 17:57:09 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0 13091........

service mysql start Starting MySQL. ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file. Solution killall -9 mysqld_safe killall -9 mysqld service mysql start Starting MySQL SUCCESS!........

PHP cannot access /usr/bin/opensslI have verified the username that runs the process is able to access /usr/bin/openssl and it does exist but the PHP script is saying it doesn't exist: [code:1:1fd0f3abbe] if (!file_exists($OPENSSL)) { //echo "ERROR: OPENSSL $OPENSSL not foundn"; }[/code:1:1fd0f3abbe] I don't get itI can clearly see the contents of /usr/bin by using the PHP system fu........