mysqld: Can't start server : UNIX socket : Protocol familiy
not supported

Hello there,

I'm trying to get mysql up on a production server running eCS 1.1. 
Starting mysqld, it simply exits with the message "Can't start server : 
UNIX socket : Protocol family not supported". This happens regardless of 
the mysql version (tried 3.23, 5.0 and 5.1). The latest glibc DLLs are 
there.

On other machines with eCS 1.0 and eCS 1.2 there are no problems with 
identical mysql setups. What I found on the net about the error message 
was not OS/2 related, but seemed to hint at an issue with the 
filesystem. I have HPFS and JFS partitions with mysql program and data 
directories residing on JFS.

Any ideas or pointers? Any known issues with eCS 1.1 which I missed, 
perhaps?

TIA,

Hi Rob,

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:17 UTC, Rob Schroeder <rs@iemp.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to get mysql up on a production server running eCS 1.1. 
> Starting mysqld, it simply exits with the message "Can't start server
: 
> UNIX socket : Protocol family not supported". This happens regardless
of 
> the mysql version (tried 3.23, 5.0 and 5.1). The latest glibc DLLs are 
> there.
> 
> On other machines with eCS 1.0 and eCS 1.2 there are no problems with 
> identical mysql setups. What I found on the net about the error message 
> was not OS/2 related, but seemed to hint at an issue with the 
> filesystem. I have HPFS and JFS partitions with mysql program and data 
> directories residing on JFS.
> 
> Any ideas or pointers? Any known issues with eCS 1.1 which I missed, 
> perhaps?

I'll take a wild guess - what's the value of HOSTNAME and is it 
resolveable?

-- 
Cheers,

Hi Paul,

Paul Smedley wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:17 UTC, Rob Schroeder <rs@iemp.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get mysql up on a production server running eCS 1.1. 
>> Starting mysqld, it simply exits with the message "Can't start
server : 
>> UNIX socket : Protocol family not supported". This happens
regardless of 
>> the mysql version (tried 3.23, 5.0 and 5.1). The latest glibc DLLs are

>> there.
>>
>> On other machines with eCS 1.0 and eCS 1.2 there are no problems with 
>> identical mysql setups. What I found on the net about the error message

>> was not OS/2 related, but seemed to hint at an issue with the 
>> filesystem. I have HPFS and JFS partitions with mysql program and data

>> directories residing on JFS.
>>
>> Any ideas or pointers? Any known issues with eCS 1.1 which I missed, 
>> perhaps?
> 
> I'll take a wild guess - what's the value of HOSTNAME and is it 
> resolveable?

HOSTNAME is the first fully qualified host name assigned to the first IP 
address, and it is resolvable.

Isn't that "UNIX socket" simply supposed to be a temporary file in the

system's temp directory?

Cheers,

Hi,

> Isn't that "UNIX socket" simply supposed to be a temporary file
in the 
> system's temp directory?

true for unix, false for os2.

os2 sockets must start with \socket\, e.g. \socket\MySQL: it is not a 
good idea to change it, since most os2 client programs uses this name.


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Paul Smedley wrote:
> 
> I'll take a wild guess - what's the value of HOSTNAME and is it 
> resolveable?
> 

Paul,

My host name is not resolveable.
What am I missing to fix it?

TIA