Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
When I try to to run mysqldump, I receive the following message: ERROR 2002 can't connect to local mysql server thru socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
That tells me that you do not have mysql running.
I am a newbie and do not lhow to interpert the log. What now?
What is the output of these commands? env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server Should say:ii mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg- all MySQL database server (metapackag ii mysql-server-5 5.5.31+dfsg- amd64 MySQL database server binaries an
ii mysql-server-c 5.5.31+dfsg- amd64 MySQL database server binaries This one needs root: service mysql restart Should say: Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld ..Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were not closed cleanly..
Bob ========= Bob - Thanks. ++++++++++++ env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-serveriU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 all MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) rc mysql-server-5.1 5.1.66-0+squeeze1 i386 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup iF mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 MySQL database server binaries
+++++++++++++ service mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed! +++++++++++++++ TIA Ethan
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