Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
 

Hi guys

working on a remote PC, Tiny sofa OS, my brothers machine

I'm walked me through the setup and adding the root password for mysql and creating a database etc and all went well.

How ever contecting to the system again to add another database we get the following error.

root@localhost /etc# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)


can any one tell us whats going on please

TT

hmm....... if you have updated your locate database first thing I'd do is

locate mysql.sock and make sure it's actually in that location, if not I think the mysqld.conf in /etc/ will allow you to change it.. but you used it before and it worked fine right?

Also, I think you may have to chown or something like that.. I did this a couple days ago..

EDIT: it was rc.mysqld on my system, but anyway, this may be the problem here....

# Note that step one is becoming the mysql user. It's important to do this
# before making any changes to the database, or mysqld won't be able to write
# to it later (this can be fixed with 'chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql').

Opps, i didn't do update db at start.

but the mysql.sock is where it says it is.

and i cant find mysql.conf

TT

Like I said above, I was wrong.. on my system it's rc.mysqld in /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld but this is slackware so things are a little different.

Anyhow, just do the "this line will fix it" that includes chown, as I think I did that and it made it work for me..

All i can find is this

under /etc/init.d/mysql

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH

# Set some defaults, don't change them here, use /etc/my.cnf
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
sockdir=/var/run/mysql
basedir=
pid_file=

and in the my.cnf we have

# Example mysql config file for medium systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# a important part and systems up to 128M very MySQL is used together with
# other programs (like a web server)
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/mf.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is /home/mysql/var) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# One can in this file use all long options that the program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program support, run the program
# with --help option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-networking

[mysqldump]

[mysql]

[isamchk]

[myisamchk]

[mysqlhotcopy]


TT :study:

we have check every thing we know of and still get these errors

root@localhost ~# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
No MySQL daemon pid file found. Looked for /var/lib/mysql/localhost.localdomain.
pid. [FAILED]
Starting MySQL daemon: [ OK ]
root@localhost ~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/m
ysql.sock' (111)


TT

Hello,

Have you ran the "mysql_install_db" script, it should be in your /usr/bin. Also be sure to "chmod 755 /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock" then restart the with "/usr/bin/mysqld restart". This should do the trick, I have been using slackware and that is what I have to do when reinstalling. Hope this helps!

Sincerely,

Danielallan