On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dave M G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MySQL List, > > I'm going through a post-hard-drive-crash process of reinstalling my whole > operating system, and MySQL is acting very strange. > > I installed it as I always have done, by using Ubuntu's Synaptic Package > Manager to install all the default packages for a LAMP server. Every time > before I've done this it has worked like a dream. > > It seemed to work when I first installed it yesterday, but today, when > trying to access phpMyAdmin, I got this error: > #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is > not correctly configured) > > I figured I'd give MySQL a bit of a kick just to see if that would help: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart > > But it gave me this new and unusual response: > > sudo: /etc/init.d/mysqld: command not found > > This is only a narrow part of your problem, but did you forget "rc.d" as part of the path? i.e. /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld ... ??
