stop slave; drop table if exists t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6,t7,t8,t9; reset master; reset slave; drop table if exists t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6,t7,t8,t9; start slave; reset master; include/stop_slave.inc change master to master_port=SLAVE_PORT; start slave; *** must be having the replicate-same-server-id IO thread error *** Slave_IO_Errno= 1593 Slave_IO_Error= Fatal error: The slave I/O thread stops because master and slave have equal MySQL server ids; these ids must be different for replication to work (or the --replicate-same-server-id option must be used on slave but this does not always make sense; please check the manual before using it).