twistd crashed with OperationalError in __init__(): (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)")

[grant harley pierce]

will not let me open my apps

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: python-twisted-core 10.2.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 25 01:34:07 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/twistd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/twistd --pidfile=/var/run/poker-network-server.pid --logfile=/var/log/poker-network-server.log --no_save --reactor=poll pokerserver
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/twistd', '--pidfile=/var/run/poker-network-server.pid', '--logfile=/var/log/poker-network-server.log', '--no_save', '--reactor=poll', 'pokerserver']
SourcePackage: twisted
Title: twistd crashed with OperationalError in __init__(): (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)")
UserGroups:

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thanks for the report, is the mysql server up and running?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for poker-network (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

Is this really the same bug as following
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725383

is there any workaround how to fix it ?
thank you,

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

Sorry , I meant duplicate of this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/twisted/+bug/756989