Hi, I tried installing mysql a couple of times and I'm having problems. First of all, when I install it gives me a message that it's setting up and it just hangs. I can't ctl + c out of it, so I reboot the server and try to log into the db with

sudo mysql -u root -p

I enter my password and then get

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

I restart the server:

 sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility, e.g. service mysql start

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start mysql ~$

I try this:

 aptitude search mysql | grep ^i

i A libdbd-mysql-perl - Perl5 database interface to the MySQL data i libmysql-java - Java database (JDBC) driver for MySQL
i A libmysqlclient16 - MySQL database client library
i mysql-client-5.1 - MySQL database client binaries
i A mysql-client-core-5.1 - MySQL database core client binaries
i mysql-common - MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mys i mysql-embedded - MySQL - embedded library
i mysql-server-core-5.1 - MySQL database server binaries

When I navigate to the folder to see if the *.sock file exists:

'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

it does not. I also try this:

service mysql status

status: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Any ideas? On my other machines installing mysql has been a snap, not sure what the problem is here. bp