Comments on: Solve: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket /tmp/mysql.sock

By: MarcoGlz

MarcoGlz — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:55:28 +0000

Wouldn't the link be removed at server reboot and the problem appear again??

I had the same problem but it is because my.cnf was not in the default locations

CLIENT:
Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf /usr/local/mysql/etc/my.cnf

So even when I added the [client] section I got the same error, so I did a link

#ln -s /my/cnf/file_location/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf

And it worked great.

By: NikoJr

NikoJr — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:22:01 +0000

Man u have saved my life hehehe… very useful.

Thanku very much

By: JEME

JEME — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:25:56 +0000

Good day qmchenry,

I try with de line:
mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ...

but now the terminal list this error:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

would you can help me

By: Steven Sheffey

Steven Sheffey — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:37:04 +0000

Hi guys, I to have this problem and I'm new to mySQL and PHP. Where are you guys locating all these directories such as: /var/lib/mysql or /usr/local/mysql/data ?

By: wassma

wassma — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:33:13 +0000

we had the same problem; and we resolve it by adding a simple link from mysql to mysql.sock with the command “ln -s”
I think there is another solution; create the repertories(mysql and mysql.sock)
sometimes we haven't mysql, we have mysqld .
and we must restart mysql at the end.

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:03:11 +0000

Hi
Just wanted to share this.
I also faced the same problem after a fresh installation of mysql on Solaris.
I tried to follow above step, but did not work,
Then it came to my notice that Mysql service was offline.
Thanks
Amit

By: David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:25:37 +0000

Excellent nugget of information:

It came in real handy when the geniouses at opensuse broke an update of mysql to mysql-5.1.34-29.1 by putting the mysql.sock and mysqld.pid in /var/run/mysql instead of /var/lib/mysql as normal. Great quick fix was found here. In addition to /etc/my.cnf, the init script at /usr/sbin/rcmysql needed to be fixed as well.

Thanks

By: GN

GN — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:00:38 +0000

instead of doing all the above stuff, just create a link in your tmp directory or directory in which the mysql error message is pointing to

eg.
>cd /tmp
>ln -sf /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysql.sock

HTH

By: dellsh

dellsh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:32:29 +0000

when is list both of this file
/tmp/mysql.sock
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
i didn't find both of them

create any of this file and leave it empty

By: ezlinuxadmin

ezlinuxadmin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:40:40 +0000

I have had more issues with this socket error, and it seems different every time. I have removed the base directory path, rebooting the server, both have worked before but now this time nothing works. Blah! But thanks for the tips. I going to upgrade to mysql 5 then downgrade again to 4. Hopefully this will do it.