Intallation failure - Error Nr. 2003 (1 reply)

Hi all,

I tried to make an upgrading from MySQL 5.1.53 to MySQL 5.5.8 On a machine that runs under Windows XP. I ran into trouble and then I decided to completely uninstall the previous version. I did this:

1) I stopped the server with

mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

2) I ran the MySQL Server Instance Config Wizard and then I chose Remove Instance.

3) I deleted the directories

C:\Program Files\MySQL

and

C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Application Data\MySQL

4) I uninstalled MySQL using the "Add and remove programs" utility.

5) I deleted from the registry all references to MySQL.

(If this seems a bit radical to you, please note that this was *not* my first approach.)

Then, after installing MySQL 5.5.8 and after configuring the server, I got this message:

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The security settings could not be applied to the database because the
connection has failed with the following error.

Error Nr. 2003
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

If a personal firewall is running on your machine, please make sure you
have opened the TCP port 3306 for connections. Otherwise no client
application can connect to the server. After you have opened the port
please press [Retry] to apply the security settings.

If you are re-installing after you just uninstalled the MySQL server
please note that the data directory was not removed automatically.
Therefore the old password from your last installation is still needed
to connect to the server. In this case please select skip now and
re-run the Configuration Wizard from the start menu.
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What can be causing this? After several failed attempts, I tried to install MySQL 5.1.54 and all went well, but I want to be able to upgrade to MySQL 5.5.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos