MySQL Bugs: #28390: Must specify IP address rather than localhost when connecting to GUI Tools

Bug #28390	Must specify IP address rather than localhost when connecting to GUI Tools
Submitted:	12 May 2007 19:23	Modified:	8 Jul 2009 11:35
Reporter:	Peter Lavin	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL GUI Common	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0-r12	OS:	Linux (Kubuntu Feisty fawn)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	IP address, localhost

Description:
When connecting to any of the GUI Tools I must enter the IP address of my machine, "localhost" is rejected. The following error is displayed if "localhost" is used;

Could not connect to host 'localhost'.
MySQL Error Nr. 2002
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I can connect to the mysql client using either the IP address or "localhost".

How to repeat:
Connect to any GUI Tool using the default installation of MySQL on Ubuntu.

Suggested fix:
Allow connection using "localhost".

Many thanks for writing a bug report. We are on the way to implement full functionality of MySQL GUI Tools into MySQL Workbench. Unfortunately you are using an unsupported platform. More informations about supported platforms you will find here:

http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/tools.html

More informations about MySQL Workbench you will find here:

http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/