"Todd O'Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something bad has happened. MySQL was up and running on my machine, but
> now it's not and I have a chicken and egg problem that I can't seem to
> solve...
>
> I uninstalled any old versions of MySQL and I'm using the package
> installer of version 4.0.13 on Mac OS 10.2.6.
>
> When I "cd /usr/local/" and "sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe" I get the
> following:
>
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
> 030702 08:43:04 mysqld ended
>
> So, I check the log and here's what it says:
>
> 030702 08:43:04 mysqld started
> 030702 8:43:04 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission
> denied
> 030702 8:43:04 Do you already have another mysqld server running on
> socket: /tmp/mysql.sock ?
> 030702 8:43:04 Aborting
>
> 030702 8:43:04 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete
>
> 030702 08:43:04 mysqld ended
>
> But, I'm pretty sure nothing's running because /tmp/mysql.sock doesn't
> exist and when I run mysql I get:
>
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
Check with
ps ax| grep mysqld
if mysqld is running. If mysqld is running, find mysql.sock file.
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