Can't sign in to phpmyadmin, mysql not running?

I can’t sign in to phpmyadmin or MySQL Administrator using (using root and my password).

MySQL Administrator gives me this error:

Could not connect to host ‘localhost’.
MySQL Error Nr. 2002
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ’/home/noah/lampstack/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

phpmyadmin does ask for the password, but doesn’t accept it and asks again for it repeatedly.

All my php pages appear blank at the moment, no errors.

I also tried:

sudo /home/noah/lampstack/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh mysql start

It returned not errors, but MySQL still does not appear in the process list and I still cannot sign in.

Also, last night when I had the server computer on, the internet would die for the whole network, even though System Monitor showed almost no network activity. I even did modprobe -r forcedeth (my network drivers) and the internet still didn’t work for my laptop. But as soon as I shut down the computer, bam, the other computers worked again.

Anyway, hopefully it doesn’t happen again.

Hi,

If you have installed the Stack as non-root user, you should not start the mysql database using “sudo”, only start as a regular user. Try the following:

$ cd <installationdir>
$ ./ctlscript.sh start

The phpMyAdmin user is “administrator” and the password is the same that you set during the installation. About your network problem, sorry but I have no idea about what might be the problem.

I hope it helps.

Thanks a lot! Works now.

I have the same problem!

Hi lukeme, have you tried the solution that I posted? It runs ok for okkare.

Cheers.