MySQL continually restarting...

[zeltus]

I really hope someone out there can help me with this!

My mysqld_safe daemon has suddenly begun to restart itself continually...

jail0043# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe -user=mysql --log=/tmp/mysql.log &
[1] 81057
jail0043# usage:
touch [-A [-][[hh]mm]SS] [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ...
usage: chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
chown [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...
080523 09:39:26 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/mysql
080523 09:39:27 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted
080523 09:39:28 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted
080523 09:39:28 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted
080523 09:39:29 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted
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The only means I have found to stop this is to "kill -9" the process, which is a bit nasty.

The logfile shows nothing.

myisamchk --recover did sort out my blog tables a bit - but hasn't solved this restarting problem.

I can't find anything searching the 'net, which seems a bit strange - has anyone else come across this and can offer wordsof advice and wisdom?

Cheers

Bill