I noticed today that my articles/howto pages were producing the following fatal error:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in /home/www/cbll.net/public_html/backend/global_funct.php on line 23Error selecting the database
Unfortunately, this probably was like this for quite a while. I do believe the change occurred during the upgrade to Debian 4.0 on andreas. The MySQL server was changed so that it did not accept TCP/IP connections and in my config files I had '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost'. When using MySQL, '127.0.0.1' uses TCP/IP while 'localhost' uses the mysql.sock socket.
See http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?52,151255,156258#msg-156258
I guess we will check to make sure everything works afterward next time w upgrade MySQL!



