[mythtv-users] Upgrade to 2.6.17-gentoo-r2/ivtv-0.7.0/mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1 and having problems

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jul 16 20:18:46 UTC 2006


On 07/16/06 15:29, Mark Knecht wrote:

>On 7/16/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 07/16/06 14:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>>dragonfly ~ # mysql -u root mythconverg
>>>ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>>>'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)
>>>      
>>>
>>Do you have the --skip-networking option in your commandline or in your
>>MySQL configuration file?
>>
>I assume this is not a mysql permissions issue since I need to connect
>to change permissions?
>
>skip-networking is commented out in both /etc/conf.d/mysql and
>/etc/mysql/my.cnf
>

So, does the file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock exist?  If not, make sure 
the user who's running mysqld has permissions to write to it and then 
restart mysql.

Mike


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