[Sussex] MySQL won't start

[Nic]

"Brendan Whelan" <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk> writes:

> I have just installed Fedora Core 6 including MySQL.  When I try to start the MySQL using "service mysqld start" I get "Neither host "mountain" or "localhost" could be looked up with /usr/bin/resolveip. Please configure your hostname........."
>
> hostname returns "mountain"  (my server name) and Apache gives the initial page when I enter http://localhost
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network contains
> NETWORKING=yes
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
> HOSTNAME=mountain
>
> These contents are similar to a system with an earlier version of
> Fedora but this time "NETWORKING_IPV6=yes" is included. 

Try adding this:


127.0.0.1       localhost mountain


to your /etc/hosts file.


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