Starting MySQL (Timeout)

I tried to hit
/sbin/service mysqld start

and apparently I got this error:

Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]

It's on Fedora Core 8, I've uninstalled and tried reinstalling but I still get the same error.

Any ways of troubleshooting the problem?

Thanks

 

Does it show the same with "/etc/init.d/mysqld start" ?

 

Yes it shows the same message, after 4-5 seconds.

 

I read in a spanish forum that the way to fix that is to do the following (i don't know if it works or not):

edit /etc/init.d/mysqld and look for: if [ -n "`/usr/bin/mysqladmin ping 2> /dev/null`" ]; then

and change that for: if [ -n "`mysqladmin -u DUMMY_USER ping 2> /dev/null`" ]; then

 

Did it worked?

 

Just tried above what you said. There is no line like that in the file

Thanks though.