I'll pay someone $15 through paypal to anyone who gets me around this problem:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=258166

You should really put this in the Ad forums since you're offering $$ for services rendered.

I've emailed the mods to ask them to move it for you.

Good luck in getting your problem solved.

Vito

I can help ya out with it, is it a cpanel server?


Feel free to send me a message on AIM "buccaneerob"

no, its not. do you have an aol or windows messenger account we can chat on?

I think I know what the problem is, send me a message on AOL IM at "buccaneerob"

Has this been taken care of?

I know what the problem is
Do you also have problems installing rpms?

There are basically two reasons why this errors appears:
mysqld is down or socket is incorrect.

Just see that mysql socket correespond to the proper value in php.ini and if not edit it

I think first you should use 'ps -aux' to see which process are running and kill all the mysql processes. Then you restart mysql again....

to kill all mysql process run "kill -9 pid" command

Hope this helps

Regards
Krishnendu

Done, thanks buccaneerob

Can you please tell us what did you do buccaneerob?

Mysql was not starting due to a problem with permissions