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Been on this issue for quite a while now... having started up with a previledge change in the previous installation of wampserver; since then I have cleanly uninstalled, deleted every instance from file and registry; but still cant make the connection to the MysQL DATABASE. both phpmyadmin and mysqlbuddy return blank pages after periods of loading.

The mysql console just displays "password:"...

All services are running just fine.

Is there any other way to completely wipe out or reset the MySQL instance

I'm getting exactly the same problem as bugmenot1 and it's driving me insane: it's clearly a problem lots of people get, but there's no clear solution that I can see. Words cannot say how grateful I would be for a chink of light in this MySQL darkness!

I've been struggling to get MySQL set up for a couple days now. I had a previous standalone installation of MySQL Server 5.5 running on my Win 7 64bit, but lost the ability to connect to it after restoring my hard drive. I thought WAMP could work where all else has failed, but I'm running into the same issue I've had all along. Basically the MySQL service seems to start OK, but I'm unable to connect to it with any client, including the console and MySQL console. With WAMP, it means that PHPMyAdmin and SQL Buddy show blank pages when you try to connect.

- I uninstall the previous MySQL, delete the MySQL directories C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 505 and in C:\ProgramData\MySQL, and delete data files from the old location of my databases, D:\MySQL Data Files.
- I delete all MySQL registry keys.
- I turn my firewall off.
- I search for my.ini and my.cnf files everywhere - the only ones are in the WAMP directories.
- I install WAMP and start all services - WAMP system tray icon shows green.
- I make sure Skype isn't running. I run Apache > Service > Test Port 80 from the WAMP systray icon and the results show Apache's the only service using the port.
- When I try to connect via the MySQL console I hit Enter at the "Enter password:" prompt. The console goes to the next line and just hangs, then the whole thing closes after about a minute an a system error beep.
- When I go to PHPMyAdmin from the WAMP systray icon it first hung on a blank page, but when I tried again later gives me the error message "MySQL said: #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)"
- I try doing a telnet from the command prompt to Mysql: telnet localhost 3306, but I get "Connecting to localhost... Could not open connection to the host, on port 3306: Connect failed".


==== C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.5.16\my.ini ==============

# Example MySQL config file for medium systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together with
# other programs (such as a web server)
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is C:\mysql\data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[wampmysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
basedir=c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.5.16
log-error=c:/wamp/logs/mysql.log
datadir=c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.5.16/data

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking

# Disable Federated by default
skip-federated

# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
log-bin=mysql-bin

# binary logging format - mixed recommended
binlog_format=mixed

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
# but will not function as a master if omitted
server-id = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)
#
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between
# two methods :
#
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -
# the syntax is:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,
# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;
#
# where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and
# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).
#
# Example:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,
# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';
#
# OR
#
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then
# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example
# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to
# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later
# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and
# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown
# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.
# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched
# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)
#
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1
# (and different from the master)
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set
# but will not function as a slave if omitted
#server-id = 2
#
# The replication master for this slave - required
#master-host = <hostname>
#
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting
# to the master - required
#master-user = <username>
#
# The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to
# the master - required
#master-password = <password>
#
# The port the master is listening on.
# optional - defaults to 3306
#master-port = <port>
#
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended
#log-bin=mysql-bin

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
#tmpdir = /tmp/
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = C:\mysql\data/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = C:\mysql\data/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = C:\mysql\data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

[mysqld]
port=3306


====== MySQL Log ===================

111009 10:55:16 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: The first specified data file .\ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
111009 10:55:16 InnoDB: Setting file .\ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
111009 10:55:17 InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
111009 10:55:17 InnoDB: Log file .\ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file .\ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active.
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
111009 10:55:18 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111009 10:55:19 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 0
111009 10:55:21 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111009 10:55:21 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
111009 10:59:08 [Note] wampmysqld: Normal shutdown

111009 10:59:08 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675
111009 10:59:08 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete

111009 10:59:08 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111009 10:59:08 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
111009 10:59:09 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
111009 10:59:09 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111009 10:59:10 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
111009 10:59:10 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111009 10:59:10 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
111009 11:14:34 [Note] wampmysqld: Normal shutdown

111009 11:14:34 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
111009 11:14:34 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
111009 11:14:34 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1595675
111009 11:14:34 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete

111009 11:14:35 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
111009 11:14:35 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111009 11:14:36 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
111009 11:14:36 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111009 11:14:36 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)


==== hosts file =====================

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 local2
127.0.0.1 local3



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2011 01:15PM by andfinally.

use Mysql5.1

or else try IPV6 support for MySQL5.5

Steven Martin
stevenmartin99@gmail.com
stevenmartin99@hotmail.com
PampServer.com - [pampserver.com]

YAY! Thanks a lot Steven, MySQL 5.1 works. I'm not sure how to get IPV6 support for 5.5, but at least I have something running.

stevenmartin99... take it from me, U just about save a life... its DONE!!