ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I\'m getting this error

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock\' (2)

even though

Answer 1

My problem was solved checking if the process was running on Ubuntu 12.04

ps ax | grep mysql

Then the answer was that it wasn't running, so I did

sudo service mysql start

Or try

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start