ReadyNAS 316 - Failed Joomla Install

I was trying to install joomla, but failed at the install page for the SQL type, localhost username/password, etc. - https://192.168.0.250/apps/joomla/installation/index.php# (http://192.168.0.250:7096/installation/index.php)

Kept giving an error when trying to submit the settings:

"mysql Could not connect to the database. Connector returned number: Unable to connect to the Database: Could not connect to MySQL."

I tried to restart MySQL but got an error:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart
[....] Restarting mysql (via systemctl): mysql.serviceJob failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.
failed!

Checking MySQL gives the following info:

dpkg --list mysql\* 

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============================================-============================-============================-==================================================================================================
iU mysql-client 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 all MySQL database client (metapackage depending on the latest version)
un mysql-client-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-client-5.1 <none> (no description available)
iU mysql-client-5.5 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 amd64 MySQL database client binaries
ii mysql-common 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 all MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
ii mysql-server 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 all MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
un mysql-server-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-server-5.1 <none> (no description available)
iU mysql-server-5.5 5.5.35+dfsg-0+wheezy1 amd64 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
un mysql-server-core <none> (no description available)
un mysql-server-core-5.0 <none> (no description available)
un mysql-server-core-5.1 <none> (no description available)
iU mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 amd64 MySQL database server binaries

Reinstall gives a socket error:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
mysql-server
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 78.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main mysql-server all 5.5.49-0+deb7u1 [78.7 kB]
Fetched 78.7 kB in 0s (101 kB/s)
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76, <> line 1.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
(Reading database ... 25988 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mysql-server 5.5.35+dfsg-0+wheezy1 (using .../mysql-server_5.5.49-0+deb7u1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mysql-server ...
Setting up rsyslog-mysql (5.8.11-3+deb7u2) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/rsyslog-mysql.conf
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
unable to connect to mysql server.
error encountered creating user:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
dpkg: error processing rsyslog-mysql (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Setting up mysql-server (5.5.49-0+deb7u1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
rsyslog-mysql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Doing a search for the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock error appears to be a port 3066 block (possibly local firewall issue?) - not sure what is causing this issue either :(

I have tried to un-install Joomla, but it failed and is now disfunctional :( I can't get rid of the entry in the Webpage Front-View App List either to re-try - no error shown, just get "Removing Applicatiom... This proccess may take a while.." then the page re-loads and has no changes (broken joomla is still listed), even after a reboot. Joomla doesn't work (page cannot be dislayed on any of the launch/settings/setup links)

I dont want to factory reset since I have some old apps I don't want to update (unwanted new features) which aren't related to joomla/MySQl/PHP. 

I have the following already installed (and working), using f/w: 6.5.1

linux-dash

PHP

PHPSysinfo for ReadyNAS

Shell in a box

If possible I'd like to run joomla from the NAS without a factory reset, any suggestions?