Could not connect to MySQL server!

[bruma]

Thank you very much sjau, info on page http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/mysql-auth-fix.html
did the trick.

FYI, I execute in mysql shell:

mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=OLD_PASSWORD('mynewpasswd') WHERE User='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

tnx, bruma

[sjau]

It works but I still don't quite see why you actually had a problem first-hand. Maybe Falko can help there.

[bruma]

Here is whole scenario, what I did.
My mysql root passwd was week so I decided to change it. When I change it first time, I use non-alphanumeric chars. At that moment I didn't know that I shouldn't use non-alphanumeric chars in mysql passwd. So I change it again to alphanumeric chars. After that I got error "Could not connect to MySQL server!".

Before first passwd change I also upgraded apache2 (with apt-get upgrade).