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Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015 09:43:24 PM +0100 From: Graham Wilman gwillman@hotmail.co.uk

Hi

Total newby to centos I am currently assisting a community radio station set up in the Uk we are using a server based system for our playout software, unfortunately at the moment one of our client servers is experience the above error I came across the error on our main server a few weeks ago and found the solution just by reinstalling the MySQL db but I have tried to deploy the same fix on our client server otherwise known as studio-b client but unfortunately this has not solved the problem any assistance with this would be very much appreciated. All the best Graham Wilman

When you get this error have you confirmed that mysqld is actually running, e.g., with a "ps"?

What is the output from:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status

Normally the socket file is:

/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

(note the capitalization).

If mysql is running, check the name (including capitalization) of the socket directory/file. If it's (the standard) lowercase, then check the client software configuration to see if there's something pointing to the mixed-case form that your error is showing. [The default location for the mysql configuration file is /etc/my.cnf, but it can be in other locations.]

- Richard