HELP! LOCALHOST 3306 not accessible?!

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I updated windows, and the computer crashed halfway through (IRQ error).
I rebooted, system restored, and now my mySQL will not start, because localhost port 3306 is not accessable!? Anyone know of any ideas?


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Hely>telnet localhost 3306
Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 3306: C
onnect failed

C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Hely>
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Anyone know anything about mySQL that could be keeping me from starting my Db server? It worked 100% fine up until last night, and I can’t figure out what happened…
In searching online, I saw the suggestion to try other ports, but none of them seem to be open, either…

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I wondered why I kept getting SQL errors when I tried to connect to the server… No idea how to fix though I’m afraid…

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Yeah… i’m trying to fix it right now, from work… which isn’t easy… :sure:

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Yay! I fixed it by updating mySQL to 4.0. Don’t know why it happened though… so it may happen again… :ne:

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One thing to try is from the computer that is affected is to ping 127.0.0.1 (local host address) This will verify that TCP/IP is up and running on the PC. Also, you may want to make sure XPs built in firewall, or any firewall you have running has port 3306 open and allowing traffic. :slight_smile:

Cheers!
-Niann

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Yeah, Tcp/Ip was running fine. I was online, and my Apahe server was still working fine. Plus, I don’t use the Windows XP crappy firewall at all, and my other firewall has always had the right ports open (mySQL worked fine before this all happened, and I never messed with my firewall)… so its still a big mystery.