[rt-users] problems "starting up" RT2 - can't connect to MySQL

Alesh Mustar alesh at sportina.si
Wed May 23 09:01:02 EDT 2001


Jesse,

*while hitting my head at the desk* yes the permission on /var/lib/mysql 
were not ok, otherwise mysql.sock is/was there (that was actually the 
first thing i checked, after manually logging to mysql with rt_user 
username.

Thank you again,
A.

Jesse wrote:

> Have you checked to make sure that the mysql.socket file described exists
> and is accessable.   This gets asked pretty frequently.  Is anyone out there
> willing to step up and maintain the FAQ?  If so, please write me privately.
> 
>         Thanks,
>         jesse 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:30:08AM +0200, Alesh Mustar wrote:
> 
>> Yesterday I've sent a message about my problems conserning DBI.pm, after 
>> some more checks, I managed to solve the problem (i dunno if it's the 
>> right way), by making a symlink.
>> 
>> DBI.pm is located in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Apache/DBI.pm 
>> when Apache complained that it doesn't find it in @INC, so i made a 
>> symlink in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Apache/DBI.pm which 
>> solved the problem.
>> 
>> In httpd.conf I have:
>> 
>> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.8>
>> DocumentRoot /opt/rt2/WebRT/html
>> ServerName rt2.sportina.si
>> PerlModule Apache::DBI
>> PerlRequire /opt/rt2/bin/webmux.pl
>> <Location />
>> SetHandler perl-script
>> PerlHandler RT::Mason
>> </Location>
>> </VirtualHost>
>> 
>> I get a 500 server internal error if I point the browser to rt2.sportina.si.
>> In error log of apache I found this:
>> 
>> [Tue May 22 13:32:11 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)  
>> (Red-Hat/Linux) DAV/1.0.1 PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 configured -- 
>> resuming normal operations
>> DBI->connect(dbname=rt2;host=localhost) failed: Can't connect to local 
>> MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) at 
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Handle.pm line 118
>> [Tue May 22 13:32:13 2001] [error] Connect Failed Can't connect to local 
>> MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
>> at /opt/rt2/lib/RT.pm line 14
>> 
>> I tried perl -MCPAN -e'install DBD::mysql::Install' didn't help either.
>> 
>> And yes mysql is running, and yes it's the correct version.
>> 
>> Can anyone advise what to do?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Alesh
>> 
>> 
>> 
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