mysql error : ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can't read dir of '.' (errno: 13)

Question

when i try to view the databases in mysql i get this error:

ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can't read dir of '.' (errno: 13) 

And that stops my app from displaying...

My django debugger says:

(2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/my_database' (13)") 

Here is my settings file :

DATABASES = { 'default': {     'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.     'NAME': 'my_database',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.     'USER': 'root',                      # Not used with sqlite3.     'PASSWORD': '****',                  # Not used with sqlite3.     'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.     'PORT': '3306',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. 

What can cause the problem?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to set ownership and permissions for directory:

chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/ #your mysql user may have different name chmod -R 755 /var/lib/mysql/ 

Note: -R makes commands recursive - you may omit it, if there is no subdirs in /var/lib/mysql/.