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Hi folks,

For the past three years, I have hosted a website using XAMPP 1.8.3-1 with Ubuntu 13.10. However, my computer locked up last week and when I went in to troubleshoot, I found that the hard drive had been filled up with log files. I deleted the log files and made some changes to keep it from happening again. Then the fun began.

I then stopped the LAMPP services that got started automatically:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop

It looked loke everything stopped OK. Then I restarted LAMPP:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Apacher and ProFTPD restarted fine, but trying to restart MySQL:

Starting MySQL.....already running.

Then I opened Firefox and ran phpinfo.php and everything looked good. I then ran phpMyAdmin and I got the following error message:

#2002 connwction refused
The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured)
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed

I also tried my Joomla website and received an error

Database error: Unable to connect to the database

Any and all assistance is welcome. I am not particularly linux savey but can usually figure things out. This one has me stumped.

Good Roads

Harpist

Sorry, but there is not even one hint, what is going wrong. Nothing. You definately have to go deeper into that, look for other MySQL instances for example etc., take a look at the process table ("sudo ps -fe") etc., but without anything we cannot help you.

Hi folks,

I got it running by the following commands:

sudo /opt/lampp/sbin/mysqld stop
sudo /opt/lampp/sbin/mysql
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

I'm guessing that some of this was superfluous (as the Swedes would say "cake on cake"), but it got it working.

Good Roads

Harpist