====== Restart Error ====== ---- ====Where & when ==== This error took place after the maintenance was performed on my mother server. At first my website showed it lost connection from my database. I was just trying to restart my mysql. Then I had the following error. ====Error Information==== [mysql-generic-5.5.40 restart] ============================================================= mysql-generic-5.5.40 [OK] mysql-generic-5.5.40 is already installed. ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found! Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/home/usrdata/mysql-generic-5.5.40/mysql.pid). ====How to solve==== cd /etc rm my.cnf amh mysql restart ====conclusion==== This error occurred because the mother server generated a my.cnf file after the maintenance. The file is incompatible with the my.cnf file which specified from AMH.