RUNNING FIREWALL

mysqladmin shutdown will try to extract the server's pid file before executing
the actual shutdown command.
It will do that by executing a SHOW VARIABLES query and processing the result.
However if that query fails it print a (somewhat confusing) error mesasage
and will still continue to do the shutdown command.
If that passes then the mysqladmin user will get an error but the shutdown will
still be successful.
This is confusing so the error message text is changed to say that this is a
non-fatal error and execution continues.
No test case added since it'd require a selective query failure device that's
not available in 5.5.