Help needed with "Can't start server : UNIX Socket : Address family not supported by protocol"

When trying to start mysqld, it ends immediatelly after starting and leaves
the following error message in the linux.err (errorlog):
Can't start server : UNIX Socket : Address family not supported by protocol
Since the latter part of this error is not mysqld specific and mysqld guys
weren't able to help me, I'm posting this here.
My first thought, which was fortified by a comment on this error in connection
with another server, was that the lackj of IPv6 support on the linux system is
the reason for the problem.
But even with IPv6 support compiled into the kernel I still get the error
message shown above when starting mysqld.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
Oliver

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:07:59 +0000, Oliver wrote:

> When trying to start mysqld, it ends immediatelly after starting and
> leaves the following error message in the linux.err (errorlog):
> Can't start server : UNIX Socket : Address family not supported by protocol
^^^^^^^^^^^

Not a networking problem. UNIX domain sockets are implemented within the
filesystem. Check that:
- the user that mysqld is running as can write to mysql's temp dir
(probaly in /var)
- ensure that mysql is correctly configured (perhaps tell it not to use
a UNIX domain socket, if possible)
- if possible use your distribution's package, to ensure all the
prerequisites are installed

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