Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installation of opendmarc using:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -yqq opendmarc
Executing:
dkpg-reconfigure opendmarc
Reinstall database for opendmarc? Answer: Yes
Connection method for MySQL database of opendmarc: Chosen: TCP/IP
Host name of the MySQL database server for opendmarc: Chosen: localhost
Port number for the MySQL service: Default: 3306
Authentication plugin for MySQL database: Chosen: default
MySQL database name for opendmarc: Chosen: opendmarc
MySQL username for opendmarc: Chosen: opendmarc@localhost
MySQL application password for opendmarc: Entered password (hidden)
Password confirmation: Entered same password
Name of the database's administrative user: Left to be root
Password of the database's administrative user: Above password entered
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Output was:
An error occurred while installing the database:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local server through socket '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) .
Followed by a choice. Tried several but resulted never in an active mysql server
* What was the outcome of this action?
See above
* What outcome did you expect instead?
A running mysql server with a socket or active port 3306.