Mysql – ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/thesqld/thesqld.sock’ (2)

MySQLubuntu-11.10

I have MySQL installed on Ubuntu 11.10. I has been working fine for months but yesterday I started getting the following message

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

and cannot get rid of it. I tried

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

and got

bash: /etc/init.d/mysqld: No such file or directory

The /etc/init.d/ directory contains mysql but not mysqld. I tried

sudo service mysql restart

It just hung for about half an hour and then I ctrl-C-ed it. I then tried

sudo service mysql start

I got

mysql start/running

But when I tried

mysql

I got

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

I tried

ps aux|grep mysql

and got

peter    17754  0.0  0.0   4196   768 pts/1    S+   09:38   0:00 grep --color=auto mysql

I ideas about fixing this problem would be most appreciated.

Best Answer

Do you have the standard mysql.log file? Possibly called mysqld.log.

It could be that you're out of disk space, would explain the sudden problem, try:

$ df -h

Look at the 4th column "Avail"

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