[mythtv-users] Upgrade to 2.6.17-gentoo-r2/ivtv-0.7.0/mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1 and having problems

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/16/06 14:28, Mark Knecht wrote:

>At this point I cannot connect to the database. MySQL is running, or
>seems to be:
>
>dragonfly ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql status
> * status:  started
>dragonfly ~ # /etc/init.d/mythbackend status
> * status:  stopped
>dragonfly ~ #
>
>dragonfly ~ # mysql -u root mythconverg
>ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)
>dragonfly ~ #
>
>
>What next steps might I take? It's been almost 18 months since I set
>up a backend so I'm quite rusty.
>
Do you have the --skip-networking option in your commandline or in your 
MySQL configuration file?

Mike