>Description: on start, MySQL creates a socket (mysqld.sock), in the /tmp directory by
>default, and tries to start
by opening socket mysql.sock. this might be a configuration error. the
following fix worked.
>How-To-Repeat:
try to start mysql by running ./safe_mysqld
>Fix:
open /etc/my.cnf and change: socket=/tmp/mysqld.sock
to this: socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
>Submitter-Id: <submitter ID>
>Originator: Rednaxel
>Organization:
<organization of PR author (multiple lines)>
>MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ]
>Synopsis: <synopsis of the problem (one line)>
>Severity: <[ non-critical | serious | critical ] (one line)>
>Priority: <[ low | medium | high ] (one line)>
>Category: mysql
>Class: <[ sw-bug | doc-bug | change-request | support ] (one line)>
>Release: mysql-3.23.37 (Source distribution)
>Environment:
<machine, os, target, libraries (multiple lines)>
System: Linux tribewave.com 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41 EST 2000
i586 unknown
Architecture: i586
Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/cc
GCC: Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='' CXX='c++' CXXFLAGS=''
LDFLAGS=''
LIBC:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 30 09:49 /lib/libc.so.6
-> libc-2.1.3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4101324 Feb 29 2000
/lib/libc-2.1.3.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20272704 Feb 29 2000 /usr/lib/libc.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Feb 29 2000 /usr/lib/libc.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May 1 07:37
/usr/lib/libc-client.a -> /usr/lib/c-client.a
Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
Perl: This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Before posting, please check:
http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive)
To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
