I had this same error message yesterday when I first set up MySQL.
Two possible reasons:
1) Is mysqld running? I used
bash2.05$ ps aux | grep mysqld
to see if there is a process called "mysqld".
2) In my installation (which I compiled from source, with the Unix
socket path option in configur
Hello
I have a RedHat 7.2 running with mysql installation, but the mysql start
not.
My version:
mysqladmin Ver 8.21 Distrib 3.23.41, for redhat-linux-gnu on i386
and this is wrong:
[root@linux mysql]# mysqladmin reload
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connec
