Since we support more versions of the daemon running with the same socket file, we can't blindly remove the socket file. MariaDB doesn't do it, so let's don't do it here as well. RHBZ#1045401 diff -up mysql-5.5.52/scripts/mysqld_safe.sh.patch31 mysql-5.5.52/scripts/mysqld_safe.sh --- mysql-5.5.52/scripts/mysqld_safe.sh.patch31 2016-09-18 19:49:13.818534828 +0200 +++ mysql-5.5.52/scripts/mysqld_safe.sh 2016-09-18 19:50:33.544748288 +0200 @@ -789,9 +789,6 @@ have_sleep=1 while true do # Some extra safety - if [ ! -h "$safe_mysql_unix_port" ]; then - rm -f "$safe_mysql_unix_port" - fi if [ ! -h "$pid_file" ]; then rm -f "$pid_file" fi