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Neil Winchurst wrote: >> I tried, both as root and as normal user. It still comes back with the >> error message about being unable to connect to the socket. > >> [root@localhost neil]# /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server start & >> Starting MySQL Server [[1] >> 6190 [root@localhost neil]# OK ] >> [root@localhost neil]# ps aux | grep mysql >> [1]+ Done /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server start >> [root@localhost neil]# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password pyworthy >> /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed >> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket >> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that >> the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists! [root@localhost neil]# > >> So I am still stuck You can't set the root password using mysqladmin unless MySQL is already running, so that's still the problem you have to resolve. Are the messages in the error logs still the same ones as you were getting before you ran mysql_install_db? If not, what are they? If they are, are the files in /var/lib/mysql owned by the mysql user (I'm not familiar with Mandriva, so this isn't an absolute given, but it's pretty common.) If all else fails, I'd be tempted to remove or rename /var/lib/mysql and re-run mysql_install_db and then try starting mysql to see if it generates the same errors. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html