error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' — Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Question

My problem started off with me not being able to log in as root any more on my mysql install. I was attempting to run mysql without passwords turned on... but whenever I

Answer 1

My solution;

Ubuntu 18.04 (WSL)

/etc/mysql/my.cnf

!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
!includedir /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/

/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

[mysqld]
user            = mysql
pid-file        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port            = 3306

I changed the port. It's worked for me. You can write another port. Example 3355