Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I am getting the following error when I try to connect to mysql:

Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock\' (2)<

Answer 1

If your mysql was previously working and has stopped suddenly just "reboot" the server.

Was facing this issue on my CentOS VPS.->

Was constantly getting

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'(2)

Tried all techniques, finally restarting the server fixed the issues ->

shutdown -r now

Hope this helps !!