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mythtv@mythtv:~$ ps -ef|grep mysql
root      4021     1  0 03:58 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
mysql     4055  4021  0 03:58 ?        00:00:03 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
root      4056  4021  0 03:58 ?        00:00:00 logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i -t mysqld
mythtv    4573  4493  0 04:37 ttyp4    00:00:00 grep mysql
mythtv@mythtv:~$ ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 4544, errno = 0