MySQL Workbench can't connect localhost

[Raymond Miecznik]

I am on Ubuntu 12.07

I have MySQL running 5.5.32 and I can login at the command prompt as root on localhost fine... into mysql. I can see databases and so everything as root.

But I recently downloaded MySQL Workbench and running it on the same localhost machine (not another machine on the network), I set for hostname localhost and root and the password using TCP/IP I get this error:

Failed to Connect to MySQL at 127.0.0.1:3306 with user root

What should I check for ?

When I do: SELECT user,host FROM mysql.user;

I see root under localhost, 127.0.0.1, %, kodiak (my hostname)..

Thanks!

Kodiak