[MKDoc-users] SuSE Installation part II

[Bruno Postle]

On Mon 16-Sep-2002 at 01:32:40AM +0200, Friedrich-Stade@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> yes, MySQL is working, but there seems to be a problem connecting
> applications to the database. You find here status messages and a part
> of the error.log and at the end of this email a  error message from a
> phpmyadmin installation which I installed to test if this software
> would connect to the MySQL.

> localhost:~ #  ps -ax | grep safe_mysqld
>  1550 pts/1    S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld
>  1719 pts/1    S      0:00 grep safe_mysqld

The 'safe_mysqld' process should maintain other 'mysqld' processes, try:

    ps -ax | grep mysqld

> The Mysql error.log file ( last part):
> 
> Can't initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set

I don't have web access here, try pasting the error message into google.

> MySQL said:
> 
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)

Does '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exist?

What do you get with:

    ls -l /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

-- 
Bruno