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

On Debian this was a bind problem for me so changing bind-address from localhost to 0.0.0.0 helped.

vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf 

bind-address = 0.0.0.0