Hi,
I tried to look everywhere for this problem for over a week but I guess I should have visited the mandrake forum earlier, anyhow.
I installed Mandrake 9.1, and everything works fine, except mysql
I can run webadmin, php pages, Apache etc, except php pages that interact with mysql.
When I call a php page with mysql I get an error saying:Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)
I uninstalled, and reinstalled the packages but that didnt work. When I type >"start mysql" I get the same message. However, when I type "service mysql start" it says started [ok], but mysql didnt start at all when I checked to see by typing:" ps -e | grep mysql".
Also when I type service mysql status I see:
mysqld is stopped
mysqld-max is stopped
There is a mysql.sock file located, both at /var/lib/mysql/ and /tmp (just to make sure)/
I dont know where to look next;
Help very appreciated
greetings
Patrick