Hello!

please i'm new to ubuntu, i installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I already install gammu 1.33.0 and xampp-linux-1.8.1, the gammu is woking alright but when i tried to configure the gammu-smsdrc, I recieve the following error

Tue 2013/07/16 17:20:42 gammu-smsd[4964]: Initialisation failed, stopping Gammu smsd: Unknown error. (UNKNOWN[27])
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: mysql service is deprecated. Please use SQL service with correct driver.
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: Configuring Gammu SMSD...
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: SHM token: 0xffffffffce050ab1 (-838530383)
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: PIN code is "0000"
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: CommTimeout=30, SendTimeout=30, ReceiveFrequency=0, ResetFrequency=0, HardResetFrequency=0
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: checks: CheckSecurity=1, CheckBattery=1, CheckSignal=1
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: mode: Send=1, Receive=1
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: deliveryreport = no
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: phoneid =
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: Error connecting to database!
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: Error code: 2002, Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Tue 2013/07/16 17:21:23 gammu-smsd[5419]: Initialisation failed, stopping Gammu smsd: Unknown error. (UNKNOWN[27])

please can somebody help to direct me on how to correct these errors, i've trying for almost two months now yet no success. thanks.