ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0

Question

I am getting the following error

ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 
\'reading authorization packet\', system error: 0

Answer 1

I have a mac but would assume all linux are the same for this part...

In my case I got this:

2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Start server: 
2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Server start done.
2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Checking server status...
2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Trying to connect to MySQL...
2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading authorization packet', system error: 0 (2013)
2018-12-03 11:13:27 - Assuming server is not running

I ran this:

sudo killall mysqld

And then started the mysql again through mysqlworkbench although in your case it might be like this:

mysql.server start

*sidenote: I tried running mysql.server stop and got this Shutting down MySQL .... SUCCESS! but after running ps aux | grep mysql I saw that it hasn't really shut down...