'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

service mysql stop
rm -f /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
service mysql start
ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

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I had this problem too. I had been running MySQL 4 for over a month with no problems. Then I updated to WHM 7.1.0 cPanel 7.1.0-R20. Still no problems at this point. Then I updated /scripts/easyapache to the July 1st build. At that point MySQL gave me the error reported above.

Then after trying some of the suggestions the error changed to this:

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)


I followed the directions in all of the related posts and nothing seemed to work for me. So here is what I did to finally make it work:

I read a post at the RackShack forum that the following needed to be in the /etc/my.cnf file:

[mysqld]
set-variable = max_connections=500

[client]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock


I only had the first 2 lines, so I added the [client] and [mysqld] parts.


Then I shut down mysql and chkservd with the following commands:

service mysql stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/chkservd stop


Then I removed the following files:

rm -rf /tmp/mysql.sock
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock


Now restart mysql and chkservd with the following commands and mysql will create the mysql.sock file in the /tmp directory as oulined in the updated my.cnf file:

service mysql start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/chkservd start


Now create the softlink with this:

ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock


There were a couple of variations in that last last command to create the softlink. I guess it depends on where mysql creates the mysql.sock file when it starts. So if you are trouble shooting you might shut down mysql as shown above, then remove the mysql.sock files. Then restart mysql as shown above and see where it creates the mysql.sock file. If it creates it in the /tmp directory then you need the softlink command shown above. If it creates the mysql.sock file in the /var/lib/mysql directory then you problaby need to use the softlink command like this as shown in some of the other related posts:

ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock


That worked for me. Hope this helps someone down the line.

 

It help me very much.

Thank you for taking the time to post.

Regards,


Richard

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Thank you, I think cpanel needs you as a tech :D

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I just started getting the same thing, so I tried what you suggested. When I try to start I get:
" Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
030823 15:58:14 mysqld ended"

When I view from processes from WHM, I get:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!

/tmp/mysql.sock isn't there because I deleted it, but mysql isn't recreating it. help???

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Also, when I try to service mysql stop, I get:
"No mysqld pid file found. Looked for /var/lib/mysql/xxx.xxx.com.pid."

How do I recreate the .pid file?

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Not sure, but I think you need to do this again:

ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

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Same thing... I try to create the link, but it doens't show in the /tmp folder. After I do that I get:
"Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
030823 17:48:34 mysqld ended"

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MySQL shutting down right after you attempt to start it up is a bad sign. Check the permissions/ownership on your mysql data directory.

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I copied an old .pid file to the mysql directory, reset, and it all came back up again.

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ok... same thing again today... replacing the backup .pid file and rebooting fixed it, but any idea why its deleteing the .pid file?

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ok... the saga continues....
The pid seems to be ok now... and mysql shows green from WHM, but when I try to use phpMyAdmin, I get
"Wrong username/password. Access denied."

here are some errors I get in apache_log:

[Sun Aug 24 22:24:07 2003] g.cgi: DBI connect
('xxx_proscript:local

[Sun Aug 24 22:24:07 2003] g.cgi: Can't conne
ct to local MySQL server

[Sun Aug 24 22:24:07 2003] [error] PHP Warnin
g: mysql_select_db(): Ca

[Sun Aug 24 22:24:07 2003] [error] PHP Warnin
g: mysql_select_db(): A


I tried stopping & restarting mysql, and no luck. I also checked for the link in the /tmp directory, and its still there....

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