From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: after upgrading to all the latest patches for RH7.3 mysql.sock can't be found at the system. ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) have searched for it but it can't be found anywhere so now MySQL can't be started! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mysql -u root 2. mysql start 3. Actual Results: I get: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Expected Results: 1. Ishould be able to login to mysql 2. MySQL should start Additional info:
It looks as though your mysql server is not running. Restart mysqld using "service mysql restart" and you should be able to connect. Let me know if this does not solve your problem.
Ahh, now it works using "service mysqld restart" ! Thanks!