How to Solve the XAMPP 1.7.7 - PHPMyAdmin - MySQL Error #2002 in Ubuntu

mysql, mysql-error-2002, phpmyadmin, ubuntu, xampp

Solution

It turns out that the solution is to stop all the related services and solve the “Another daemon is already running” issue.

The commands i used to solve the issue are as follows:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop              
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop    
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Or, you can also type instead:

sudo service apache2 stop
sudo service mysql stop

After that, we again start the lampp services:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Now, there must be no problems while opening:

http://localhost                  
http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Problem

I have been through lots of forums and checked various posts on similar topic but non seems to work out for me. I have freshly installed XAMPP 1.7.7 on my Ubuntu 11.10 Operating system. Everything is running except for the phpMyAdmin. Upon hitting: http://localhost/phpmyadmin, I am getting the following error: MySQL said: ``` #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed. ``` When i am starting the services with: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start I am getting the following: XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running. XAMPP: Another MySQL daemon is already running. XAMPP: Another FTP daemon is already running. XAMPP for Linux started. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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