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

Question

I installed LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and then set root password on phpMyAdmin. I forgot the password and now I am unable to login. When I try to chan

Answer 1

Try this:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root -p 

Also (to see if it's running):

telnet 127.0.0.1 3306 

Probably it is just a misconfiguration in the my.cnf file, in /etc/somewhere (depending on the Linux distribution).