Jausions, Philippe writes:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering how to get through that "Can't connect to local MySQL server
> through socket '' (111)" error message with MySQL GUI for Linux (RedHat
> 7.0). I configured mysqlgui through ~/.my.cnf and client configuration file.
> I tried the static and semi-static binary versions. If I put a "socket"
> parameter ("/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock" as shown in "mysqladmin variables". I
> also tried a "/tmp/my.sock" just in case...) then the GUI crashes with a
> core dumped. If I leave the "SQL command on connect (or socket)" blank, then
> it just gives me the connection error message (Yes, I'm being prompted for
> the password...)
>
> I read a lot of the messages in this mailing list, they all seem to refer to
> misconfigured files. I must be blind... Connection with the regular "mysql"
> client works fine.
>
> If anyone could help?
>
> Thanks.
Hi!
You should put /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock in the specified field .
But you should also use only static version of mysqlgui on RH 7.*, due
to some problems on RH 7.*.
This combination should work.
Regards,
Sinisa
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