Solution for: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
Solution for: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Posted by: Ibrahim Assaab ()
Date: June 07, 2008 02:00AM
Hi everybody,
I have got the same problem, but I have solved it by doing the following steps:
First: Make sure that the owner of /var/lib/mysql and its files and subdirectories is mysql user of mysql group
to do that run the following command:
chown mysql.mysql -R /var/lib/mysql/*
Second: change write permissions to rwxr-xr-x (755) for mysql directory, and all its files and subdirectories, by running the following command:
chmod 755 -R /var/lib/mysql/*
now start mysql service by running the following command (Red Hat and may fedora):
service mysql start
the error message should disappear and should output:
Starting MySQL. [ OK ]
I have got the same problem, but I have solved it by doing the following steps:
First: Make sure that the owner of /var/lib/mysql and its files and subdirectories is mysql user of mysql group
to do that run the following command:
chown mysql.mysql -R /var/lib/mysql/*
Second: change write permissions to rwxr-xr-x (755) for mysql directory, and all its files and subdirectories, by running the following command:
chmod 755 -R /var/lib/mysql/*
now start mysql service by running the following command (Red Hat and may fedora):
service mysql start
the error message should disappear and should output:
Starting MySQL. [ OK ]
