On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Chris Olsen <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I just did an unwanted mysql upgrade and am now unable to start the
> mysql service.
>
> After doing some searching the common solution is to just create a
> symlink
>   ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
>
> The issue for me is I don't have the file I am trying to symlink to
> (/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock)
>
> If I try to start mysql manually (mysql start) I get the error:
> # mysql start
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
>

Hi, are you 100% sure that you need the location of this .sock file?  If you
do, then generate another Rails project and take a look at the database.yml
file.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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