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

Question

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

Answer 1

Though I'm using Mac OS 10.9, this solution may work for someone else as well, perhaps on Ubuntu.

In the XAMPP console, I only found that phpMyAdmin started working again after restarting everything including the Apache Web Server.

No problemo, now.

Answer 2

I stopped MySQL sudo service mysql stop and then started xammp sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start and it worked!

Answer 3

Go to config.inc.php file using terminal by typing the following:

sudo gedit /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

The file will open in gedit.

Now open the file and edit

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'localhost';

to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

and keep the username as: root password:

Also make sure that the lines with username and password are not commented:

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

Make sure that // is removed from the above lines.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

please check the mysql.ini file in your xampp mysql installation... its found on xampp/mysql/bin directory

check the line 43

> log_error="mysql_error.log"
> #bind-address="127.0.0.1"

uncomment the line 43 if its still commented

Answer 6

Goto xampp folder in local drive c, click on mysql folder, then click on bin and finally click on "mysqladmin" application. Then go back and refresh your browser and the problem is solved.