Re: Communication failure during handshake. Is there a server running on localhost:3306?

[Gearoid Coughlan]

Hi,

I followed previous posts for the solution:

basicly from the mysql prompt

mysql> update user set Password=old_password("your-pass") where User="root" and Host="localhost";

then exit mysql

use mysqladmin to reload the grant tables as follows

# mysqladmin -u root reload -p

then all worked just as normal.

regards
gearoid