I am using Fawn 7.04 all I typed was sudo apt-get upgrade mysql <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Tony White <<a href="mailto:tony.mzungu@gmail.com">tony.mzungu@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, It will help to know which version of ubuntu, and how you 'upgraded' the mysql. Tony On 26/03/2008, Antony Kipingor <<a href="mailto:kipingor@gmail.com">kipingor@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding you:) <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">>  Hi all, > >  I hope you have been well, I resently attempted to upgrade Mysql server. The >  server is now giving me issues, I believe the root of the problem is the >  my.cnf is a  different version than the server itself. > >  When I attempt to login i.e. >  #mysql -u root -p >  etc >  I receive the following error message: >  ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket >  '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) > >  Can anyone help me </div></div>>  -------------- next part -------------- >  An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >  URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/0f43de26/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/0f43de26/attachment.htm</a> > > -- >  Ubuntu-ke mailing list >  <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-ke@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-ke@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >  <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ke" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ke</a> > -- Tony White </blockquote></div>