Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > When I try to to run mysqldump, I receive the following message: > > ERROR 2002 can't connect to local mysql server thru socket > '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
That tells me that you do not have mysql running. > I am a newbie and do not lhow to interpert the log. > > What now? What is the output of these commands? env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server Should say: ii mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg- all MySQL database server (metapackag ii mysql-server-5 5.5.31+dfsg- amd64 MySQL database server binaries an ii mysql-server-c 5.5.31+dfsg- amd64 MySQL database server binaries This one needs root: service mysql restart Should say: Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld .. Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were not closed cleanly.. Bob
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