Check for /etc/my.cnf or .my.cnf in mysql's var directory.
One of these must have a line misdefining the socket as mysqld.sock.
Chad Nantais wrote:
>> 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
>
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