OperationalError: (OperationalError) (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.129.139' (111)") None None

Question

I am trying to create a remote database using mysql on an Ubuntu machine running 12.04.

It has a root user with remote login enabled and no password.I have started the server.

output of

sudo netstat -tap | grep mysql

shows

tcp        0      0 localhost:mysql         *:*                     LISTEN      13246/mysqld

I have created a database called nwtopology using (as mentioned root doesn't have a password yet.)

 create database nwtopology
 grant all privileges on *.* to [email protected]
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

From the client machine that also runs Ubuntu 12.04 I use a python script to connect to the remote mysql database using sqlalchemy.

from pox.core import core
import pox.openflow.libopenflow_01 as of
import re
import datetime
import time
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy import Column, Date, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import exists

log = core.getLogger()
engine = create_engine('mysql://[email protected]/nwtopology', echo=False)
Base = declarative_base()
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()

class SourcetoPort(Base):
    """"""
    __tablename__ = 'source_to_port'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    port_no        = Column(Integer)
    src_address    = Column(String,index=True)

    #-----------------------------------------
    def __init__(self, src_address,port_no):
        """"""
        self.src_address = src_address
        self.port_no     = port_no

The create_engine() call is failing with the following error.

POX 0.1.0 (betta) / Copyright 2011-2013 James McCauley, et al.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/karthik/ms_thesis/pox/pox/boot.py", line 89, in do_import2
    __import__(name, globals(), locals())
  File "/home/karthik/ms_thesis/pox/custom/tutorial.py", line 39, in <module>
    Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 2515, in create_all
    tables=tables)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2230, in _run_visitor
    conn = self.contextual_connect(close_with_result=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2340, in contextual_connect
    self.pool.connect(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 210, in connect
    return _ConnectionFairy(self).checkout()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 371, in __init__
    rec = self._connection_record = pool._do_get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 697, in _do_get
    con = self._create_connection()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 174, in _create_connection
    return _ConnectionRecord(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 256, in __init__
    self.connection = self.__connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 316, in __connect
    connection = self.__pool._creator()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py", line 80, in connect
    return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 280, in connect
    return self.dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 187, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
OperationalError: (OperationalError) (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.129.139' (111)") None None

I cannot figure out why this is happening?Any help is greatly appreciated?

Answer 1

Looks like the mysql server is configured to listen only on localhost.

You can test this by running telnet 192.168.129.139 3306 from your client machine.

Most probable reason - mysqld (=MySQL daemon) is configured to do so.

Please try to follow Configuration step described here:

Edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to configure MySQL to listen for connections from network hosts, change the bind-address directive to the server's IP address. For example, in your case, replace 192.168.0.5 with 192.168.129.139.

From:

bind-address            = 192.168.0.5

to:

bind-address            = 192.168.129.139

If there is no such entry and you cannot connect, create a new line. You may also try commenting out the line instead.

After making a change to /etc/mysql/my.cnf the MySQL daemon will need to be restarted:

sudo systemctl restart mysql.service

Then test with telnet or by running your application once again. Also netstat would have second entry for mysqld.