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Linux MySQL replication dies with ERROR 1201 (HY000): Could not initialize master info structure

Posted by Admin • Friday, February 12. 2010 • Category: Linux
On a fine happy morning I am greeted with an alert that slave is not running. Running start slave yields this:
ERROR 1201 (HY000): Could not initialize master info structure; more error messages can be found in the MySQL error log
Enabling the log yielded nothing. Googling yielded This Page that helped me a lot, but I didn't have to do quite as much work all over again. Here is what I did.

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