Anthology of Ideas » server http://anthologyoi.com Anthology of Ideas is an archive of thoughts and form. Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:16:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket…error. http://anthologyoi.com/computers/cant-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socketerror.html http://anthologyoi.com/computers/cant-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socketerror.html#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:08:37 +0000 aaron http://anthologyoi.com/blogish/asides/cant-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socketerror.html I recently moved my /home folder to its own partition, but in doing so, I broke MySQL. The full error I got was:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

To fix this you need to create the file and make sure that MySQL has access to it. (All commands need to be run as root)

Create the directory (if it doesn’t already exist).

sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld/

Create the file by “touching” it.

sudo touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Set the ownership of the mysqld.sock file and folder to mysql.

sudo chown -R mysql /var/run/mysqld/

You can then start MySQL and breath easier.

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