Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL crashed

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/30/00 1:50 PM, Toni Soto at planeta@xxxxxx wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I installed PHP and MySQL successfully in my new RAQ3. But... I made a
> mistake and  forgot to write the password for root in MySQL.
> 
> I tried several times to connect to but I failed. Next step was to
> delete all files that 'mysql_install_db' make after set up from the
> directory where MySQL database was.
> I wanted to re-build these files and star again settin up a new
> password.
> 
> But now I can do nothing. Next message appears:
> 
> 
>> [admin@raq3 bin]$ mysql
>> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>> '/var/lib/mysql/m
>> ysql.sock' (111)
>> 
> I dont know too much about Linux, and I don´t know how can I stop all
> the process still alive to install again MySQL from the Cobalt FTP files

It looks to me like your problem is that MySQL is not running.

Do the following:

ps -aux | grep sql
and see what it returns.

if you want to start the MySQL server, just run /usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld &

-k