Error #2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I\'m running MAMP.
It has been working fine up until yesterday. I haven\'t been able to find anything that helps so far. But here is my problem:

As the title

Answer 1

I faced the same problem. When i start MAMP separately, then the problem gone. And issuing following command worked fine.

mysql -u root -p