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From: "I.E.Broadbent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: Etch mysql won't start
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote:
I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my
databases
mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone help
this
newbie figure out what is wrong? I know it's difficult when I can't tell
you exactly what was going on when it stopped working, but I don't know
where to start with this. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but
that
doesn't help. Anything simple to do to start from scratch with a fresh
mysql?? Thanks! - John
John,
if you try connecting to mysql using mysqlmanager (or one of the other
gui frontends) what error messages do you get? Something like 'cannot
connect to socket (or sock) at xxxxxxxxxxxx address'? or perhaps, '
access denied to user (name) using password (yes [or no])' ... ?
It would help greatly to understand what mysql is trying to tell
you, ... ?
If you've already reinstalled it all then it is likely that it must be
one of the two options above (either the path has become confused, or
your access rights have).
I won't be able to take this further myself because I'm about to be
off-line for the next 3 days... but the answers would assist others.
Thanks, Ian. It's not that I can't CONNECT - mysql won't even start, i.e.
it FAILS to start during reboot, and it won't start using /etc/init.d/mysql
start from a terminal. phpMyAdmin won't let me login, but that's just
because mysql is not even running.
When you say "reinstalled it all" above, what "all" has to be reinstalled?
I think what I am asking is:
1. What constitutes a basic "fresh mysql [re]install"?
2. How to debug further?
Thanks! - John
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