phpnuke parou de vez

galera , meu phpnuke funcionava tudo bunitinho, sem eu fucar em nada parou de funcionar, fui nos logs do apache e encontrei isso|:

[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be estab$
[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: Can´t connect to local MySQL server through soc$
[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can´t connect to local$
in /var/www/htdocs/html/includes/sql_layer.php on line 81
[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be estab$
[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: Can´t connect to local MySQL server through soc$
[Thu Mar 13 16:05:33 2003] [error] PHP Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can´t connect to local$
in /var/www/htdocs/html/includes/sql_layer.php on line 82

detalhe ja reinstalei o mysql e o php , e nada, alguem tem uma dica do que possa ser? problema no apache? ele carrega o modulo php tudo bonitinho . quem puder me ajudar obrigado - usando slackware 8.1 , Server version: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix), php 4.2.1 e mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.51, for slackware-linux-gnu (i386), com php nuke 6.

Obrigado