[DAS] mysql.sock trouble

[Lincoln Stein]

I think this has been addressed already (I'm reading my e-mail backwards), 
but the best of all solution to is set the socket path correctly in 
/etc/my.cnf:

[client]
port            = 3306
socket          = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

These two stanzas tell both the client and the server to use the same socket.

Lincoln
     



On Saturday 18 May 2002 00:01, Leonardo Marino-Ramirez wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I think that I found something that could be useful to you:
>
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html and
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/r/Problems_with_mysql.sock.html
>
> in synthesis you can try to symlink it: "ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> /tmp"
>
> I hope it works for you.
>
> Leonardo
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2002, Steve Chervitz wrote:
> > DAS folks,
> >
> > This may be more of a mysql issue than a DAS issue, and is more of an FYI
> > since I have a mostly satisfactory resolution, but I was getting a
> > connection error when using the ldas_load.pl script:
> >
> > $ ldas_load.pl --create --database dicty test.das
> > DBI->connect(dicty) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
> > socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) at
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/ca
> >ching_handle.pm line 140
> > ------------- EXCEPTION: Bio::Root::Exception -------------
> > MSG: Can't connect to database: Can't connect to local MySQL server
> > through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
> > STACK: Error::throw
> > STACK: Bio::Root::Root::throw
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/Root/Root.pm:315
> > STACK: Bio::DB::GFF::Adaptor::dbi::caching_handle::new
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/ca
> >ching_handle.pm:90 STACK: Bio::DB::GFF::Adaptor::dbi::new
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi.pm
> >:74 STACK: Bio::DB::GFF::Adaptor::dbi::mysql::new
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/my
> >sql.pm:253 STACK: Bio::DB::GFF::Adaptor::dbi::mysqlopt::new
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/my
> >sqlopt.pm:149 STACK: Bio::DB::GFF::new
> > /nfs/linux/pkg/perl/build-1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Bio/DB/GFF.pm:550
> > STACK: /usr/local/bin/ldas_load.pl:50
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I could succesfully connect to the dicty database using mysql on the
> > command-line, so my mysql setup appeared OK.
> >
> > My /tmp/mysql.sock was apparently defunct, probably from an old mysql
> > install that I did over a year ago. The real socket from the latest mysql
> > installation was at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and wasn't been recognized.
> > I tried deleting /tmp/mysql.sock and re-installing LDasServer, but still
> > no go.
> >
> > Problem was solved by restarting mysqld with --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
> >
> > This however created another annoyance in that the mysqladmin now
> > requires that I specify the --socket, since it defaults to
> > /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.
> >
> > So it seems I have to use /tmp/mysql.sock to appease the LDasServer, but
> > it complicates my mysql installation. Any suggestions from the mysql
> > jocks out there?
> >
> > Here's my version info:
> > mysqladmin  Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.49a, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Steve Chervitz
> > sac@bioperl.org
> >
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