If the mysql log (per Brandon's suggestion) doesn't show anything
useful, you can always try strace on the mysqld executable directly.
Something along the lines of:
sudo -i
# stop mysql clean, figure out how your system starts it up
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
mysql_flags=$(/etc/init.d/mysql --debug start 2>&1 | grep 'starting
mysqld with' | cut -f 2- -d:)
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
# manually run mysql, through strace to see what's going on
emerge -av strace
strace /usr/sbin/mysqld $mysql_flags 2>&1 | tee /tmp/strace.mysql.out
exit
Then the log file /tmp/strace.mysql.out might show a SEGV or some
other bad bad problem.
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