Oracle Enterprise Linux hangs on reboot at xinetd

I changed log xinetd.conf to log to a different location.  For whatever reason that allowed me to get a message onscreen just after xinetd said OK.  It had a mysqld "problem."  It didn't say what it was.  Just this,
mysqld_safe logging to /var/log/mysqld.log
starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
I booted into the Oracle Linux Rescue disk, and at /etc/init.d and,
mv mysqld mysqld.disabled
was able to get to the desktop after that.  BTW, it never did log to my new location /var/log/somelogfile
However, when I start mysqld manually with mysqld.disabled start it works.  No errors.  I don't know.  I can't find anything useful in any log, but there are tons of them, so I'm sure I'm looking in the wrong place.  It only gets hung (that I can tell) when xinetd tries to start mysqld.  I can reproduce this problem by doing the reverse above..
I think the SELinux thing was because I was editing the files with the rescue cd.  When I stopped doing that I didn't get the problem anymore.

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