Re: mysqld.sock missing

[Mannequin* <mannslists@invigorated.org>]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:24:37 +0200
Philippe Marzouk <phil-antispam@ozigo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:45:15AM -0500, Mannequin* wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Last night I believe I upgraded mysql. Now whenever I try and use mysql, I
> > get this error:
> > 
> 
> see bug #321578
> 
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321578>
> 
> You have to remove old_passwords=1 from /etc/mysql/my.cnf
> 
> Philippe

Philippe, I've done so, and I'm still getting the same error:

> $ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
> Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
>	Please take a look at the syslog.
> /usr/bin/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!

Thanks for the help, though.

-M.