Installing MySQL 4 on Suse 10.1

[Gurb]

Hello people,
I am on installing and configuring Mysql 4 on Suse 10.1.
I had Mysql 5 and i removed it (thru yast), and i installed Mysql 4 (binaries), by following the steps on mysql page. All fine and dandy until i needed to test if mysql starts and shuts down.
bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & fails..it shuts down immediately
I went into /usr/local/mysql/data/host.err, and it seems that the mysql is already running..
070517 2:43:25 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use
070517 2:43:25 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?

Commands are giving me back error messages:
mysql.server does not exist in /etc/init.d when i tried to restart it..mysql doesn't start when i call it either

If i try to run mysqladmin, i get:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

I checked logs, mysql log, and whatever i could find in var/log related to mysql..there is nothing..

How do i put everything in order? What I am missing or doing wrong?
Thanks for the help.

[gogalthorp]

Just a guess but I bet you did not shut 4 down before uninstalling it. That means it is still running and you removed all its interface apps. Do a ps -A to show all processes. See if you can find any related to mySQL and kill them. You may need to be root.

Or you could just reboot. The old 4 version should not restart.

[Gurb]

Thanks gogalthorp..no, there is no process related to mysql. I am root, but i cannot reboot the server..