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:
Summary: Can't connect with anything except command line => Can't connect to MySQL / MariaDB with anything except command line
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 => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED