Sometime get the following error on MySQL sites and also when trying to access MySQL from server:
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) [2002]
Solution is very simple:
/etc/my.cnf
skip-innodb
Try to restart MySQL and if it don’t start then use:
killall -9 mysqld
Assign appropriate permissions to your /tmp directory.
# chmod 1777 /tmp
After that restart MySQL:
service mysql restart
Cheers.
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