Thread:Project:Support desk/old mysql database resulting in Cannot contact the database server/reply (8)

Ah got it. But the thing is that mysql (mediawikiMySQL) server appears to be running fine on my machine (?). It's just that I can't get to the wiki page.

Anyway, I did mysqldump command (I actually had to add -u username and -p options) but got a 10MB dump file. This looks small compared to the total size of the mysql/data folder/subfolders (86MB) but I am assuming it is heavily compressed or something.

What would be the next command line to run?