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Hello, First of all I am still quite a beginner in the Linux world. I recently installed mandriva and today I got around to installing the LAMP package (from the repositories) and everything went smooth (almost :P). Everything seems to work, except the phpMyAdmin connection (or MySQL in general, I'm not sure which is the problem. Anyways, when I try to connect as root on phpMyAdmin (using "root" as username and a blank password as I think that is supposed to be the default, right?) , I get the following error: #2002 - Le serveur ne répond pas. (ou l'interface de connexion ("socket") vers le serveur MySQL local n'est pas correctement configurée). or in English: #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured). And when I run "mysql -u root mysql", I get the following error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Anyone know what to do here? Thank you very much! :)

Am trying to solve it at this vey moment :) I now get the error: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists! when I try "mysqladmin version"

Hmm, have you checked that the mysql daemon is running? Does ps -A return a pid for mysqld?

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