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

Posted by: Paul Lynch
Date: February 09, 2007 10:45AM

When I got this error, the problem turned out to be the result of having two versions of MySQL (or at least the client) installed, and my path was still pointing to the old version's binaries.

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