nathandr

Mysql server fails to start with following error - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2). Any help please?

OS:Debian
Mysql version :5.0

/etc/mysql/my.cnf (as mentioned below)

/var/log/mysql.err 0kb
/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index 0kb (no other logs found in /var/log/mysql)

/etc/mysql/my.cnf
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

[mysqld_safe]
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice = 0

skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
set-variable=max_connections=200

user = mysql
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
basedir = /usr
datadir = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir = /tmp
language = /usr/share/mysql/english
skip-external-locking

key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 128K
thread_cache_size = 8
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 16M

log_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
# WARNING: Using expire_logs_days without bin_log crashes the server! See README.Debian!
expire_logs_days = 10
max_binlog_size = 100M
g_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log


set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 16M

!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/

wmorri

Hi,

Can you tell us the last time that is was working correctly, and if there were any updates to it?

Cheers!