问题
I'm getting kind of desperate here trying to get mysql to work on osx lion.
I've been through nearly every article on the web these past few days looking for a way to fix the problem with the error.
When I try to start the server is gives this error:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
when I try to create a database with 'rake db:create' it gives the same error.
sometimes it says that or I get errors about "please install gem-blabhalbhabhlb". And that gem doesn't exist.
I was able to install mysql in terminal using the dmg version from mysql's site but after I deleted the installation files it just stopped working- as in when I run
rake cd:create
I get the mysql.sock error.
I'm going insane.. please help
回答1:
For me I often need to force mysql to not use unix sockets, but regular php sockets. To do this, connect to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Works 90% of the time, all the time.
回答2:
Major credit to John P. for helping me get this working last night
The first thing was to uninstall mysql using 'brew uninstall mysql'.
Then to install mysql from their development site. The community .dmg 64 bits version.
Then to find out where the path was pointing.
So in updating the paths he had to find where bin/mysql was and make sure bash_profile had it's path there.
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
The essential step after that was to 'source' the file so he had me run this command.
source ~/.bash_profile
From there mysql works flawlessly.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10844762/should-i-reinstall-mysql