Comment 1 for bug 359341

my /etc/my.cnf.bak is

[mysqld]
#debug
basedir=/usr
datadir=/mnt/data/db
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=2048

default-character-set=utf8

max-connections=512
net_read_timeout=7200
net_write_timeout=7200

innodb_log_file_size=256M

and I do not have /etc/my.cnf file