Mysql server fails to start with following error - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2). Any help please? OSebian Mysql version :5.0 /var/log/mysql.err 0kb /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index 0kb (no other logs found in /var/log/mysql) /etc/mysql/my.cnf [client] port = 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock [mysqld_safe] socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock nice = 0 skip-bdb set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2 [mysqld] set-variable=local-infile=0 set-variable=max_connections=200 user = mysql pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock port = 3306 basedir = /usr datadir = /var/lib/mysql tmpdir = /tmp language = /usr/share/mysql/english skip-external-locking key_buffer = 16M max_allowed_packet = 16M thread_stack = 128K thread_cache_size = 8 query_cache_limit = 1M query_cache_size = 16M log_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log # WARNING: Using expire_logs_days without bin_log crashes the server! See README.Debian! expire_logs_days = 10 max_binlog_size = 100M g_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2 [mysqldump] quick quote-names max_allowed_packet = 16M [mysql] #no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition [isamchk] key_buffer = 16M !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
