[Mediawiki-l] communication problems

[Rick DeNatale]

On 6/20/06, Frederich, Eric  P2173 <eric.frederich at siemens.com> wrote:
> Every other day I see  a message saying "Sorry! This site is
> experiencing technical difficulties.  Try waiting a few minutes and
> reloading.  (Can't contact the database server: Can't connect to local
> MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) (localhost))"
>
> A restart of the MySQL database seems to fix it then after another
> couple of days it goes down again.
>
> Any ideas what may be wrong or how to fix this?

By restart, I guess you mean that MySql isn't running at the time.

Have you checked the system and mysql logs to see if mysqld is
crashing? Perhaps someone has a backup scheme which stops mysql while
a backup is being taken?
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