Cannot find mysql.sock

Question

I just had to re-install mysql and I am having a problem starting it up. It cannot find the socket (mysql.sock). The problem is that neither can I. In my Mac OS X 10.4 te

Answer 1

I'm getting the same error on Mac OS X 10.11.6:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

After a lot of agonizing and digging through advice here and in related questions, none of which seemed to fix the problem, I went back and deleted the installed folders, and just did brew install mysql.

Still getting the same error with most commands, but this works:

/usr/local/bin/mysqld

and returns:

/usr/local/bin/mysqld: ready for connections.

Version: '5.7.12' socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Homebrew