Hi Olivier & all!

Problems were: PMA_INT_VERSION < 30010 instead of PMA_INT_VERSION >= 30010 :)

I'm afraid this isn't true ;) The socket setting is available since php 3.0.10 only then $server_socket should be empty if PMA_INT_VERSION < 30010.

and fact that $connect_func() is used twice in lib.inc.php3

Oups, you're right... I must be drunk we I merged the patch. But the name of this second link is $link and not $dbh.

OK, I've done some advanced tests with the socket patch and found also that phpMyAdmin runs even with a garbage socket path. It seems that php try to use a kind of default socket path if the one defined in the phpMyAdmin configuration file is not valid or scans all available sockets till it finds the convenient one (indeed it takes far much time to load phpMyAdmin whith an invalid socket path).

Loïc

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