[SOLVED] cannot find mysqld.stock

bonedragon · 09-06-2012, 06:49 PM

I've looked through all the similar threads to no avail.
this is what i know so far:
when i

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run mysqladmin -u root -p status

I get this:

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mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

So I checked and there is no mysqld.sock file.
I also checked the /tmp directory as others have suggested but its not in there either.

I ran

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sudo whereis mysql.sock.

to try and find it but it just returned

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mysql.sock:

The problem seems to have started after I updated form Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04.
I'm at a loss can anyone please help me.
thanks

evo2 · 09-06-2012, 08:07 PM

Hi,

did you confirm that the server is actually running? Have you read the mysql server log files?

Evo2.

bonedragon · 09-06-2012, 09:46 PM

yes i did it was running

anyway i managed to fix the issue by removing and then re-installing mysql.