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

Check the "bind-adress" parameter in my.cnf.

Else try with the command:

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

• -h for host 127.0.0.1, that is, localhost

• -P (notice -P as uppercase) for port 3306, that is, the default port for MySQL