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

For me - this was simply a case of MySQL taking a long time to load. I have over 100,000 tables in one of my databases and it did eventually start but obviously has to take a long time in this instance.

Answer 2

Adding

--protocol=tcp 

to the list of pramaters in your connection worked for me.

Answer 3

are you sure you installed mysql as well as mysql server..

For example to install mySql server I'll use yum or apt to install both mysql command line tool and the server:

yum -y install mysql mysql-server (or apt-get install mysql mysql-server)

Enable the MySQL service:

/sbin/chkconfig mysqld on

Start the MySQL server:

/sbin/service mysqld start

afterwards set the MySQL root password:

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' (with the quotes)

I hope it helps.

Answer 4

I ran into this issue today. None of these answers provided the fix. I needed to do the following commands (found here https://stackoverflow.com/a/20141146/633107) for my mysql service to start:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
cd /var/lib/mysql/
ls ib_logfile*
mv ib_logfile0 ib_logfile0.bak
mv ib_logfile1 ib_logfile1.bak
... etc ...
/etc/init.d/mysql restart

This was partly indicated by the following errors in /var/log/mysql/error.log:

140319 11:58:21 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 50331648 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 5242880 bytes!
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
140319 11:58:21 [ERROR] Aborting

I also saw the disk full error, but only when running commands without sudo. If the permissions check fails, it reports disk full (even when your partition is not even close to full).

Answer 5

To prevent the problem from occurring, you must perform a graceful shutdown of the server from the command line rather than powering off the server.

shutdown -h now

This will stop the running services before powering down the machine.

Based on Centos, an additional method for getting it back up again when you run into this problem is to move mysql.sock:

mv /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.bak

service mysqld start

Restarting the service creates a new entry called mqsql.sock

Answer 6

Another workaround is to edit /etc/my.cnf and include host in the section [client]

 [client]
 #password       = your_password
 host            = 127.0.0.1
 port            = 3306
 socket          = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

And then restarting the mysql service.

This workaround was tested in: Server version: 5.5.25a-log Source distribution