Bug 15210

Summary:	Can't connect to MySQL / MariaDB with anything except command line
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Owen Savill <osavill>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mariadb-10.0.16-1.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Owen Savill 2015-02-05 23:45:44 CET

Description of problem:
Nothing can connect to MySQL except the command line. Not Navicat nor the MySQL Workbench nor any web sites, only bash. The errors being reported include

2013 - Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0

2003 - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) and same for 127.0.0.1

and

Insufficient memory: cannot create MySQL handle using mysql_init()

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Owen Savill 2015-02-05 23:48:55 CET

Summary: Can't connect with anything except command line => Can't connect to MySQL / MariaDB with anything except command line

Comment 1 Owen Savill 2015-02-06 19:03:15 CET

skip-networking was in my.cnf

This shouldn't be allowed to creep in, as it has before. This is not a hardened distribution, or at least I don't think it i, so this setting is no applicable.

But I'm glad that's all it was!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED