Mysql (+ more) errors in new droplet

Hi,

Hey everyone, for the past 15 days i’ve been strugling with problems on my droplet since I’ve lost permission rights on my old one and hence decided to create a new droplet. But it seems im still on a dead end with this one.

So the story goes something like this: I tried several times to upload files through FTP and didn’t work, tried to see if there was a problem with the permissions and couldn’t figure that out and then I’ve noticed that the small files (e.g 54bytes ) were sent just fine, so I then tried to increase the limit from 1024 to something 102400 . During that procedure I found out that under /etc/my.cnf did not exist. So I created a modified copy from /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.5/examples/my-small.cnf Then I increased the limits from etc/security/limits.conf And also installed nhm in order for the “show” command to be displayed. (Running: show global variables like ‘open%’; ) to verify that the limit was increased.

After this I tried " service mysqld restart " and got an error: unrecognized service.

Then a apache restart: service apache2 restart

• Restarting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified doma in name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the ‘ServerName’ directive globally to suppress this message [ OK ]

Postfix was not set up. Start with cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf . If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(1).

After modifying main.cf, be sure to run ‘/etc/init.d/postfix reload’.

Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) … Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) … Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) …

So I logged into mysql (mysql -u root -p ) and got a: mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)

And here is my systems info:

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64)

System information as of Tue Oct 21 07:10:59 EDT 2014

System load: 0.02 Processes: 86 Usage of /: 9.0% of 29.40GB Users logged in: 0 Memory usage: 21% IP address for eth0: 188.226.242.58 Swap usage: 0%

Any help or thoughts whatsoever please, I’m really confused right now.

Also, some extra info that might help:

ps -eaf | grep -in mysql 85:root 13661 11832 0 08:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -in mysql

sudo service mysql start start: Job failed to start

service mysql stop stop: Unknown instance:

tail -n 25 /var/log/mysql/error.log 141021 8:24:19 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 141021 8:24:19 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 141021 8:24:19 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 141021 8:24:20 InnoDB: 5.5.38 started; log sequence number 1595685 141021 8:24:20 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): ‘127.0.0.1’; port: 3306 141021 8:24:20 [Note] - ‘127.0.0.1’ resolves to ‘127.0.0.1’; 141021 8:24:20 [Note] Server socket created on IP: ‘127.0.0.1’. 141021 8:24:20 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/db.frm’ 141021 8:24:20 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can’t open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/db.frm’ 141021 8:24:21 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 141021 8:24:21 [Note] Plugin ‘FEDERATED’ is disabled. 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 141021 8:24:21 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 141021 8:24:22 InnoDB: 5.5.38 started; log sequence number 1595685 141021 8:24:22 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): ‘127.0.0.1’; port: 3306 141021 8:24:22 [Note] - ‘127.0.0.1’ resolves to ‘127.0.0.1’; 141021 8:24:22 [Note] Server socket created on IP: ‘127.0.0.1’. 141021 8:24:22 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/db.frm’ 141021 8:24:22 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can’t open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/db.frm’

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help !