I just created a new droplet, changed the MySQL root password and restarted the server with the reboot command. Now, MySQL isn’t running, and when I try to run it, I get this:

“`# /etc/init.d/mysql start

• Starting MySQL database server mysqld [fail]”`

So I tried checking the status and I get this.

# mysqladmin status
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

Any ideas here? This is a brand new droplet with minimal modifications. All I’ve done is upload some files into /var/www and configure and startup one vhost.

Thanks.