Question

I am having problem accessing my database,

when I try to run mysql -h localhost -u root -p
and enter the password

I am recieving this kind of error

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Wonder why I get this.

When I type mysql --version

I have no error and got this msg: mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.22, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.2

But when I type this comman mysql -v I got an error that says:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

I thought mysql --version and mysql -v are desame

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

I get that error when the MySQL service isn’t running. What OS are you on? I’m on Debian GNU/Linux, so I start the service with

# service mysql start

but other systems may use something different, like start or invoke-rc.d or something.