Re: MySQL won't start....

[tat@riseup.net]

> Hello everybody, I recently setup a web server on Debian Sarge.
>
> After setup there was the debian-maintinence account for mysql that I
> haven't touched. There was also a root account with no password that I
> did change. But there was also another root account with no password
> that I changed, and ever since then I get the following error when
> trying to start mysql:

This looks like mysqld can't bind to your network interface,
check if your ip is set right in /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
Or check if you have any processes running on port 3306

>
> /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!
>
> Well, it doesn't exist, and I'm not sure what to do. It wasn't until I
> changed the password on the second root account that I started receiving
> this error. Was I supposed to just leave the second root's password blank?
>
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