Comments on: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket…error.

By: Hongo

Hongo — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:22 +0000

After you checked:

1- Server is up and running.
2- You aren’t typing the wrong password.
3- If you have more than one MySQL server on your system.

I did a post on this same problem My problem was solved, but in my case I used to have also LAMPP installed and that was the conflicting issue.
http://hongouru.blogspot.com/2012/02/solved-cant-connect-to-local-mysql.html

By: Hongo

Hongo — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:35:23 +0000

After you checked:

1- Server is up and running.
2- You aren’t typing the wrong password.
3- If you have more than one MySQL server on your system.

I did a post on this same problem http://hongouru.blogspot.com/2012/02/solved-cant-connect-to-local-mysql.html
My problem was solved, but in my case I used to have also LAMPP installed and that was the conflicting issue.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:21:02 +0000

I’ve noticed a lot of people coming across this problem and I’ve seen many unresolved questions floating around. Many times this occurs after a system reboot where mysql/mysqld is not started once the reboot is complete. A fix I came across:

# chkconfig –list mysqld
mysqld 0 : off 1 : off 2 : off 3 : off 4 : off 5 : off 6 : off

# chkconfig mysqld on

# chkconfig –list mysqld
mysqld 0 : off 1 : off 2 : on 3 : on 4 : on 5 : on 6 : off

# /sbin/reboot

——
Wait for reboot to complete

Then, to check that mysql is working properly
——

# mysql -u root -p

# /etc/init.d/mysqld status

I hope this helps someone.

By: Sitthya

Sitthya — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:35:54 +0000

I got this issue, the server was full.
I erased some files and it worked fine as always.

By: vikpan

vikpan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:32:41 +0000

works gr8 !! thnx for the fix

By: Allen Highnote

Allen Highnote — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:20:02 +0000

I had the same problem on an Ubuntu 11 virtual machine running on vmware server 2.0. It turned out that I had broken my /etc/network/interfaces file. Once I got the loopback portion of the file corrected, MySQL came back fine.

For me, it was making sure that the following lines were in the /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

When you connect to MySQL via the local machine using # mysql -uusername -ppassword it tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 (local loopback) However, if you’ve botched your interfaces file as I had, your mysql gets screwed. I tried all of the uninstalls mentioned above but that didn’t work for me. I even made sure that I went through the entire filesystem and deleted every file and directory with “mysql” in it’s name and then reinstalled. No luck. But when I got my interfaces file corrected, everything was fine.

see # man interfaces for a little help on the file.

By: Stemy

Stemy — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:02:27 +0000

I tried everything but not working for me.

I am on debian 5. Need help.

By: MySQL service won’t start - Admins Goodies

MySQL service won’t start - Admins Goodies — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:19:01 +0000

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By: piyush

piyush — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:21:51 +0000

THanks!!! Cheers!

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:25:50 +0000

In Ubuntu this did the trick for me:

Sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start