Re: Etch mysql won't start

["I.E.Broadbent" <ieb@klokwurx.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my databases 
> mucked up.  Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all.  Can someone help this 
> newbie figure out what is wrong?  I know it's difficult when I can't tell 
> you exactly what was going on when it stopped working, but I don't know 
> where to start with this.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that 
> doesn't help.  Anything simple to do to start from scratch with a fresh 
> mysql??  Thanks!  - John
> 

John,
if you try connecting to mysql using mysqlmanager (or one of the other
gui frontends) what error messages do you get?   Something like 'cannot
connect to socket (or sock) at xxxxxxxxxxxx address'?  or perhaps, '
access denied to user (name) using password (yes [or no])' ... ?

It would help greatly to understand what mysql is trying to tell
you, ... ?

If you've already reinstalled it all then it is likely that it must be
one of the two options above (either the path has become confused, or
your access rights have).

I won't be able to take this further myself because I'm about to be
off-line for the next 3 days... but the answers would assist others.

Ian