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

Simple: run these codes:::

 1:: ls -lart/var/run/my*

   2::mkdir /var/run/mysqld

    3::touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
    4:ls -lart /var/run/mysqld
    5::chown -R mysql /var/run/mysqld
    6::ls -lart /var/run/mysqld
REstart your mysql server

then finaly type mysql -u root or mysql -u root -p and press enter key. thanks