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

[Tina Chang]

Hi, this is what I did, although I don't know if that's correct (I'm a newbie in this). First, see if the file exists in the directory (if not, create an empty mysqld.sock file). In the file my.cnf, comment the line old_passwords = 1

Then, as root, do:

#mysql_install_db
#cd /usr
#/usr/bin/mysqld_safe &

Well, hope it works!