I recently reloaded my PC (slack 14.1 and cqrlog 1.9.0) and now CQRLOG won't run

When it starts cqrlog gives the following error:
MySQL could not be started, please check if the MySQL server is installed properly
MySQL is running OK.

I ran cqrlog debug and got the following. I noticed cqrlog also couldn't find mysql.err so I created it but the result from the debug remained the same and mysql.err is empty

Loading libcrypto: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
Loading libmysqlclient: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
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MySQL version: 5.5
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MySQL version assigned: 5.500000000000000000E+00
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Loaded 79027 LoTW users
Loaded 87197 eQSL users
Loaded 47254 SCP calls
IniFile:/root/.config/cqrlog/cqrlog.cfg
LocalIniFile:/root/.config/cqrlog/local.cfg
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User home directory: /root/
Program home directory: /root/.config/cqrlog/
Data directory: /root/.config/cqrlog/database/
Memebers directory: /usr/share/cqrlog/members/
ZIP code directory: /usr/share/cqrlog/zipcodes/
Binary dir: /usr/bin/
Share dir: /usr/share/cqrlog/
TConnection to MySQL: 5.5
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Trying to connect to database
180102 14:48:55 mysqld_safe Logging to '/root/.config/cqrlog/database//mysql.err'.
180102 14:48:55 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /root/.config/cqrlog/database/
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe_helper: Can't create/write to file '/root/.config/cqrlog/database//mysql.err' (Errcode: 13)
Server connect failed.
Trying:1
Trying to connect to database

Trying to connect to database
Server connect failed.
Trying:8
Closing DXCluster window
Closing TRXControl window
Closing GrayLine window
Closing dDXCC
Closing dData
Closing ini file ...
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Here is ls -l of mysql.err

root@Spitfire:~# ls -l /root/.config/cqrlog/database//mysql.err
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 14:47 /root/.config/cqrlog/database//mysql.err
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mysql.cfg is:

[mysqld]

innodb_log_file_size=50331648

# Use UTF-8 encoding for tables
character_set_server=utf8
collation_server=utf8_general_ci

# use InnoDB for transactions and better crash recovery
default_storage_engine=innodb

# memory pool InnoDB uses to store data dictionary information and other internal data structures (default:1M)
# Deprecated in MySQL >= 5.6.3
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=1M

# memory buffer InnoDB uses to cache data and indexes of its tables (default:128M)
# Larger values means less I/O
innodb_buffer_pool_size=80M

# Create a .ibd file for each table (default:0)
innodb_file_per_table=1

# Write out the log buffer to the log file at each commit (default:1)
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2

# Buffer size used to write to the log files on disk (default:1M for builtin, 8M for plugin)
# larger values means less I/O
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M

# error log file name, relative to datadir (default:hostname.err)
log_error=mysql.err

# print warnings and connection errors (default:1)
log_warnings=2

# Convert table named to lowercase
lower_case_table_names=1

# Maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string. (default:1M)
max_allowed_packet=32M

# Maximum simultaneous connections allowed (default:100)
max_connections=256

# The two options below make no sense with prepared statements and/or transactions
# (make sense when having the same query multiple times)

# Memory allocated for caching query results (default:0 (disabled))
query_cache_size=0

# Do not cache results (default:1)
query_cache_type=0

Im not sure where the problem lies