Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) mysql.sock being deleted code example
Example 1: can't connect to local mysql server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
shutdown -h now
mv /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock.bak
mv /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.bak
service mysqld start
Example 2: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2) Ask
sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-{version_number}
sudo mysql -u root -p