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 had the same problem and it has been caused by an update of mysql drivers when mysql server was running. I fixed it just restarting both mysql and apache2:

sudo service mysql stop

sudo service mysql start

sudo service apache2 stop

sudo service apache2 start