Hello,

I was using MySQL till a few days ago just fine. Now everytime I try to run
it using mysql.exe, I get the following error:

"can't connect to mysql server 'localhost' (10061)"

What can I do to get rid of this? (What is 10061?)

FYI: I just did this as well:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\afterinstall\bin>mysqladmin ping
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)'
Check that mysqld is running on localhost and that the port is 3306.
You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306'

C:\Program Files\MySQL\afterinstall\bin>telnet localhost 3306
Connecting To localhost...Could not open a connection to host on port 3306 :
Con
nect failed

What's going on? What should i do?

Asad
"Asad Khan" <aik__1 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

"Asad Khan" <aik__1 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Looks like your server isn't started... Check out the options for
mysqld.

Try to stat it at the command line first... The try starting the
client at the command line as well... After everything works, you can
install the server as a Windows service...