From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: with packages php-4.0.6-12.i386.rpm and php-mysql-4.0.6-12.i386.rpm (updates) i have the following error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' when i try to connect to mysql on localhost. If I reinstall old php-mysql module it works again. If i telnet on port 3306 on localhost it works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install something like phpmyadmin without previous upgrade php packages 2. Try it: it works fine 3. Upgrade php packages (php-mysql) 4. Try again: you have the error messages Actual Results: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Expected Results: It should open the interface of phpmyadmin Additional info: On 3 different computer the same problem, if I install the original php-mysql package provided with original cd of redhat 7.2 it works again.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60515 ***