MySQL Not Turning On
- by Shalin Shah
I have an amazon ec2 instance running on the Amazon Linux AMI and its a micro instance. I wanted to install Django onto my server so I entered these commands
wget http://www.mlsite.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/go
wget http://www.mlsite.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/django.conf
chmod 744 go
./go
So after I was done, I ran sudo service httpd restart and sudo service mysqld restart
and This is what came up for mysqld:
Stopping mysqld: [ OK ]
MySQL Daemon failed to start.
Starting mysqld: [FAILED]
So I deleted the django files /usr/local/python2.6.8/site-packages/django_registration.egg
and
I tried finding the error and I found out that in my
/etc/my.cnf for the socket, it said socket=/var/lock/subsys/mysql.sock so I went to /var/lock/subsys/ and there was no mysql.sock. I tried creating one using vim but it still didn't work. Then I checked the error log and it said
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
So I am pretty much lost right now. I know it has something to do with mysql.sock
If you might know a reason why this was caused could you please let me know? I have a wordpress site on my server, so i kind of need MySQL to work. Thanks!
