Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (38)

Question

I am having a big problem trying to connect to mysql. When I run:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql start

I have the following error :

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Answer 1

I got the following error

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)

Tried several ways and finally solved it through the following way

sudo gksu gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

modified

#bind-address       = 127.0.0.1

to

bind-address        = localhost

and restarted

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

it worked