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MySQL won't start!
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I'm getting this error when trying to log into MySQL from the command line: I think this means that MySQL hasn't been started yet. So I try to start it: and I get this message: Where do I look/what do I do to get MySQL to start? I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and installed MySQL through apt-get. I have b…
Error Output
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
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On Ubuntu 12.04 I had this same problem after changing buffer sizes in /etc/mysql/my.cnf file, I think I got a little carried away. Anyway after trying to change them back to the default setting MySQL still would not start. I tried several different…
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