i upgraded to KDE 3.5.1 today (used 3.5.0 sofar) and now amarok is unable to connect to my mysqlbase. yes, i re-emerged amarok (1.3.8, btw) but this didnt help at all :woohoo:

calling amarokapp from commandline i see no errors. if amarok starts, my collection is empty and i see this:

MySQL hat den folgenden Fehler ausgegeben:
Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld-500.sock\' (2)
MySQL kann im Abschnitt Sammlung unter Einstellungen->amaroK einrichten ... eingerichtet werden.

hmm (sorry for the german language, though..) for sure mysql is running, and the socket is rw to everyone. using webmin i am able to read/modify the mysql database fine without problems.

i am at a little loss here right now. any hints?

hmm.. i just realize the following..
hds wrote:

\'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld-500.sock\' (2)

why "mysqld-500.sock"?? of course that doesnt exist, mysqld.sock does :blink:

OK, i edited /etc/mysql/my.cnf, and changed the socked name, amarok is happy now.
though.. i wonder why this happened? amarok was happy sofar with mysqld.sock. something wrong with KDE 3.5.1 ?

does amaroK get the mysql config from KDE? if so, that would explain this behaviour - and there is a problem with KDE 3.5.1 (well, not a real problem, though..)
i cant tell for sure, because amaroK is the only KDE application using mysql on my workstation.

Post edited by: hds, at: 2006/02/02 11:19