Question
Getting Error while reinstalling MYSQL
- Posted on May 12, 2022
- DigitalOcean DropletsMySQL
Asked by Mohit Pandey
I had my disk space full due to which I couldn’t delete binary logs using sql command. So, I took a backup deleted some bin files manually using SFTP. After this mysql start messing up, so I uninstalled and installed again but it isn’t working.
I ran following code to uninstall:
sudo apt-get purge mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql
And for installing I followed this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-20-04
And now I getting an error
“Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)”
Please help me out
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Hi there,
I could suggest following the steps from this answer here on how to completely uninstall MySQL:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/completely-uninstall-mysql-server
Let me know how it goes after that.
And if you are still seeing the error, can you check the MySQL status with:
sudo systemctl status mysql
And also check your MySQL error log and share the output here?
Best,
Bobby
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So, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I’m getting this error