From: Prabhat Kumar
Date: April 11 2012 5:58pm
Subject: Re: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through
 socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
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did you check permission of file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@stripped>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Ganesh Kumar <bugcy013@stripped> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am using debian squeeze it's working good, I am trying to install
> > mysql-server. mysql-server installation successfully but didn't start
> > service
> > root@devel:/var/run# more /etc/mysql/my.cnf |grep socket
> > # Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket
> location.
> > socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> > socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> > socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> >
> > root@devel:~# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
> > Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
> > Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> failed!
> > root@devel:~# mysql -u root -p
> > Enter password:
> > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> > '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
> > root@devel:~# cd /var/run/mysqld/
> > root@devel:/var/run/mysqld# ls
> > root@devel:/var/run/mysqld#
>
> Is selinux enabled? If so, check the logs for that.
>
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