Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I am getting the following error when I try to connect to mysql:

Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock\' (2)<

Answer 1

Check if your mysqld service is running or not, if not run, start the service.

If your problem isn't solved, look for /etc/my.cnf and modify as following, where you see a line starting with socket. Take a backup of that file before doing this update.

socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock  

Change to

socket=/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock -u root