Error 2002 and MySQL not starting

[Cian Duffy]

Cross posting the lists is not thought of as good

Without seeing the MySQL error log, no-one here can tell you why its
not starting up. Paste any important lines from it (within reason),
don't attach it

Cian


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:53:44 -0800, Everett Littles
<eslittles at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> I just installed a copy of YDL 4.0 and now want to get MySQL up and
> running.
> However, whenever I tried to invoke it, I get the following error
> message:
> Error 2002: can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
> 
> In OS X Server, I am used to this meaning that the MySQL server is not
> up and running.  So I did a check to see if the process was running and
> it wasn't.  When I tried to launch /usr/bin/safe_mysqld I get the
> following output.
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
> 050201 07:16:23 mysqld ended
> 
> Why won't mysqld start?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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