Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

March 26, 2014 1.5k views
netominas
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Yesterday my server was down and is now giving the following error message: "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can not connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var / run / mysqld / mysqld.sock' (111)" Can anyone help me?
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kamaln7 MOD April 5, 2014
That means it crashed. Start it: 
sudo service mysql start
And then check its error log for more info on why it crashed: 
sudo tail -40 /var/log/mysql.err
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