MySQL Replication ERROR 1201: Could not initialize master info structure…
November 19th, 2008
I have noticed strange behavior with MySQL version 5 and replication. I manage several MySQL database servers. The setup is simple, one master and two replication slaves acting as backups. The master server version is 5.0.22-log and the two slaves are 5.0.51a and 5.0.45.
When the replication gets interrupted (either via a clean server shutdown or a forced one), replication refuses to restart citing the following error:
ERROR 1201: Could not initialize master info structure, more error messages can be found in the MySQL error log