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 ran into this issue today. None of these answers provided the fix. I needed to do the following commands (found here https://stackoverflow.com/a/20141146/633107) for my mysql service to start:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
cd /var/lib/mysql/
ls ib_logfile*
mv ib_logfile0 ib_logfile0.bak
mv ib_logfile1 ib_logfile1.bak
... etc ...
/etc/init.d/mysql restart

This was partly indicated by the following errors in /var/log/mysql/error.log:

140319 11:58:21 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 50331648 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 5242880 bytes!
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Aborting

I also saw the disk full error, but only when running commands without sudo. If the permissions check fails, it reports disk full (even when your partition is not even close to full).