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

[Darryl Allardice]

SOLVED:

My problem (Ubuntu) was a permission issue on /var/run/mysqld and the clue was that logging into mysql worked when I was root, but not as any other use (did not work with '-u root' on the command line either). Here is an 'ls -l' for me:

(login failed)
drwxrwx--- 2 mysql root 80 2006-02-19 16:51 mysqld

(login succeeded)
drwxrwxr-x 2 mysql root 80 2006-02-19 16:51 mysqld

Hope this helps someone.

Regards,
-Darryl