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In a previous posting, I gave details about a frustrating but presumed successful upgrade to MySQL. Now, I am not sure that it was - at least as far as Plesk is concerned. I am not sure what triggered this after it worked for a couple of weeks, but the Plesk control panel is no longer accessible. MySQL and all other applications seem to be working without any problems. A server restart has no effect, and 1and1's support is unhelpful at best. At this point, the most likely problem seems to be MySQL. Not that it isn't working, but that Plesk won't start properly because of some db access issue.

After hours of trying things and not getting anywhere, I used PuTTY to try this: /etc/init.d/psa restart

Control panel works! The output from command was:

PSA is down, perfoming full restart.
error reading information on service mysqld: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/psa: line 500: /etc/init.d/mysqld: No such file or directory
Starting psa-spamassassin service: [ OK ]
Processing config directory: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.*.include
/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpsdctl start: httpd started
Starting Plesk: [ OK ]

I am not sure what the lesson is here, perhaps that a hard restart should be done after you think everything is working to prove that it will keep working. After restart, it still works - but since I don't really know why it stopped, there isn't a high confidence factor right now.