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I was very frustrated with CentOS after discovering that MySQL Server has issues starting up. For those struggling with the same problem, here is a fix:

In /etc/my.cnf, add the following line under the [mysqld] section:

   [mysqld]
   skip-bdb

You also might want to add the following under the [mysql] section:

  [mysql]
  protocol=TCP

Now your server will start, and your client does not rely only on Sockets for connectivity.

Hope that helps some one :)