Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (38)

Question

I am having a big problem trying to connect to mysql. When I run:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql start

I have the following error :

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Answer 1

If everything worked just fine and you just started seeing this error, before you do anything else, make sure you're not out of disk space:

df -h

If the volume where the mysql.sock is being created is at 100% use, MySql won't be able to create it and this will be the cause of this error. All you need to do is delete something that's not needed, like old log files.