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

This problem will occurred due to some unnecessary changes made in my.cnf file. Try to diff /etc/mysql/my.cnf with one of working mysql servers my.cnf file.

I just replaced /etc/mysql/my.cnf file with new my.cnf file and this works for me.