I'm trying to use a fresh installation of MySQL on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu) and can't seem to ever connect to it. I always get the error:
WSL: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I've tried:
Switching the configuration to use localhost instead of sockets (I instead get an error saying I can't connect through localhost)
Using --skip-grant-tables by editing /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf and restarting
The file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock never shows up either, though I figure this is because WSL doesn't have perfect socket support to begin with but it should still work. I suspect the problem might be specific to WSL and maybe I should try updating to WSL2? I don't know what else the issue could be.
I have the same issue solved through the following steps.
Put these lines at the end of the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf:
[mysqld]
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
user=root
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Then put these commands on terminal (NOTE: if dir is not there then create one):
chmod 777 -R /var/run/mysqld
chmod 777 -R /var/lib/mysql
chmod 777 -R /var/log/mysql
Then start MySQL using below command:
mysqld
Then open a new terminal and connect using the below command:
mysql -uroot -pYourPass
I had the same issue.
Follow these steps provided by Microsoft: Add or connect a database with WSL
Update your Ubuntu packages: sudo apt update
install MySQL with: sudo apt install mysql-server
Start a MySQL server: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
Start the security script prompts: sudo mysql_secure_installation
Open the MySQL prompt: sudo mysql
In ubuntu version of WSL2 use this.
sudo chmod g+rx /var/run/mysqld
sudo usermod -aG mysql $USER
Although M. Hamza Rajput's answer is working (checked), it might be the case that the problem happens simply because mysql is NOT running
Thus, start mysql service:
sudo service mysql start
and then you can call the secure installation
sudo mysql_secure_installation
My problem started off with me not being able to log in as root any more on my mysql install. I was attempting to run mysql without passwords turned on... but whenever I ran the command
# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
I would never get the prompt back. I was trying to follow these instructions to recover the password.
The screen just looks like this:
root#jj-SFF-PC:/usr/bin# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
120816 11:40:53 mysqld_safe Logging to syslog.
120816 11:40:53 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
and I don't get a prompt to start typing the SQL commands to reset the password.
When I kill it by pressing CTRL + C, I get the following message:
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
If I retry the command and leave it long enough, I do get the following series of messages:
root#jj-SFF-PC:/run/mysqld# 120816 13:15:02 mysqld_safe Logging to syslog.
120816 13:15:02 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
120816 13:16:42 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
[1]+ Done mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
root#jj-SFF-PC:/run/mysqld#
But then if I try to log in as root by doing:
# mysql -u root
I get the following error message:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I checked and /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock file doesn't not exist. The folder does, but not the file.
Also, I don't know if this helps or not, but I ran find / -name mysqld and it came up with:
/var/run/mysqld - folder
/usr/sbin/mysqld - file
/run/mysqld - folder
I don't know if this is normal or not. But I'm including this info just in case it helps.
I finally decided to uninstall and reinstall mysql.
apt-get remove mysql-server
apt-get remove mysql-client
apt-get remove mysql-common
apt-get remove phpmyadmin
After reinstalling all packages again in the same order as above, during the phpmyadmin install, I got the same error:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
So I tried again to uninstall/reinstall. This time, after I uninstalled the packages, I also manually renamed all mysql files and directories to mysql.bad in their respective locations.
/var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/mysql/mysql
/var/log/mysql
/usr/lib/perl5/DBD/mysql
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/mysql
/usr/lib/mysql
/usr/bin/mysql
/usr/share/mysql
/usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mysql
/etc/mysql
Then I tried to reinstall mysql-server and mysql-client again. But I've noticed that it doesn't prompt me for a password. Isn't it supposed to ask for an admin password?
Try this command,
sudo service mysql start
To find all socket files on your system run:
sudo find / -type s
My Mysql server system had the socket open at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Once you find where the socket is being opened, add or edit the line to your /etc/my.cnf file with the path to the socket file:
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Sometimes the system startup script that launched the command line executable specifies a flag --socket=path. This flag could override the my.cnf location, and that would result in a socket not being found where the my.cnf file indicates it should be. Then when you try to run the mysql command line client, it will read my.cnf to find the socket, but it will not find it since it deviates from where the server created one. So, Unless you care where the socket resides, just changing the my.cnf to match should work.
Then, stop the mysqld process. How you do this will vary by system.
If you're super user in the linux system, try one of the following if you don't know the specific method your Mysql setup uses:
service mysqld stop
/etc/init.d/mysqld stop
mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
Some systems aren't setup to have an elegant way to stop mysql (or for some reason mysql doesn't respond) and you can force terminate mysql with either:
One step: pkill -9 mysqld
Two step (least preferred):
Find the process id of mysql with either pgrep mysql or ps aux | grep mysql | grep -v grep
Assuming the process id is 4969 terminate with kill -9 4969
After you do this you might want to look for a pid file in /var/run/mysqld/ and delete it
Make sure the permissions on your socket is such that whatever user mysqld is running as can read/write to it. An easy test is to open it up to full read/write and see if it still works:
chmod 777 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
If that fixes the issue, you can tailor the permissions and ownership of the socket as needed based on your security settings.
Also, the directory the socket resides in has to be reachable by the user running the mysqld process.
This error occurs due to multiple installations of mysql.
Run the command:
ps -A|grep mysql
Kill the process by using:
sudo pkill mysql
and then run command:
ps -A|grep mysqld
Also Kill this process by running:
sudo pkill mysqld
Now you are fully set just run the following commands:
service mysql restart
mysql -u root -p
Have very well working mysql again
The solution is way easier.
First, you have to locate(in Terminal with "sudo find / -type s") where your mysql.sock file is located. In my case it was in /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock
Fire up Terminal and issue
sudo Nautilus
This starts your Files manager with super user privileges
From Nautilus navigate to where your mysql.sock file is located
Right click on the file and select Make Link
Rename the Link File to mysqld.sock then Right click on the file and Cut it
Go to /var/run and create a folder called mysqld and enter it
Now right click and Paste the Link File
Voila! You will now have a mysqld.sock file at /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock :)
Just Need to Start MySQL Service after installation:
For Ubuntu:
sudo service mysql start;
For CentOS or RHEL:
sudo service mysqld start;
There is a bug on Ubuntu with MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 where var/run/mysqld/ would disappear whenever MySQL service stopped or is rebooted. This prevents MySQL from running at all. Found this workaround, which isn't perfect, but at least it gets it running after stopping/reboot:
mkdir /var/run/mysqld/
chown mysqld /var/run/mysqld/
Make sure your inaccessible socket file path is same as '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock', otherwise change the path as yours.
Stop the mysqld
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
If the process still runing;
$ sudo pkill -9 mysqld
Remove the mysql directory where socket going to create. For me it did not allowed to remove, so I had to forcefully remove.
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/run/mysqld
Set the ownership to the dirctory
$ sudo chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld
Start mysql
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
Trying to connect mysql
$ sudo mysql -u dbuser -p
Okay just copy and paste these codes: This should be done in the terminal, inside a server, when your mysql database is not properly installed, and when you are getting this error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'.
Stop MySql
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
Restart it or start it
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart or sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Make a link like this and give it to the system
ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Run a secure installation which guides all the process you need to do to configure mysql
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
I faced same error and found that it was due to upgradation of packages, So after restarting my system I resolved error.
I think due to sql libraries/ packages update that error occured, So try this if you are doing some upgrading :)
There is a lots of reason for this issue, but sometimes just restart the mysql server, it will fix the issue.
sudo service mysql restart
The answer of the user load step worked for me.
Sometimes is need edit the file in /etc/mysql/my.cnf add line to client
[client]
password = your_mysql_root_password
port = 3306
host = 127.0.0.1
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Using XAMPP on ubuntu:
Create a folder called mysqld inside /var/run directory. You can accomplish that using the command sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld.
Create a symbolic link to mysql.sock file that is created by the XAMPP server when it is started. You can use the command sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock.
Note: The mysql.sock file is created when the server is started and removed when the server is stopped, so sometimes the link you created might appear to be broken but it should work as long as you have started the server using either sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start or any other means.
Start the server if it's not already running and try executing your program again.
Good luck! I hope you'll get away with it this time.
I think your MySQL server has not started. So start the server using one of the following commands.
#services mysql start
or
#/etc/init.d/mysql start
Why getting this error
I received new updates of mysql libraries so i updated my Kubuntu OS after that getting these errors.
Commands i tried and how i fixed it.
MySql-server is running correctly but when i tried to connect its giving
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'.
I checked /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'. this directory.
My files did not existed.
I also tried these commands to connect but did not worked for me.
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root -p
sudo service mysql start
After wasting round about 2 hours i found the solution
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -f
After that everything fixed for me.
*Error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
solutions
finally uninstall and reinstall mysql. **
sudo apt-get remove mysql-server
sudo apt-get remove mysql-client
sudo apt-get remove mysql-common
sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin
then install again by
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6
After this operation, 164 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y press YES for complete installations
......
.......
At last you will get these lines....
Setting up libhtml-template-perl (2.95-1) ...
Setting up mysql-common-5.6 (5.6.16-1~exp1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
And then
root#ubuntu1404:~# mysql -u root -p (for every password first u
should use )
Enter password:
Note :Entered password should be same as the installation time
password of mysql(like .root,system,admin,rahul etc...)
Then type
USE rahul_db(database name);
Thanks.**
Temporary Solution
Maybe someone facing this problem. I am using Mysql Workbench on Ubuntu 14 and got this error.
mysqldump: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) when trying to connect
Find your socket file by running sudo find / -type s, in my case it was /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
So, I just created a link to this file in tmp directory.
sudo ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
Please note that this is a temporary solution since the file created will be under /tmp. See other answers for a permanent solution.
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
in /etc/my.cnf add this lines:
[client]
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock <= this path should be also same as is[mysqld]
And restart the service with:
service mysql restart
this worked for me
This was mentioned a couple of times already, but this worked immediately for me:
service mysql restart
you can find mysqld.sock in /var/run/mysqld if you have already installed mysql-server
by sudo apt-get install mysql-server
I just had this problem on Ubuntu 14.10
Turns that mysql-server was no longer installed (somehow it had been removed) but I couldn't just install it because there were some broken packages and dependency issues/conflicts.
In the end I had to reinstall mysql
sudo apt-get remove mysql-client
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
I had the exactly same issue. After struggling for an hour, I found a way of correcting it without reinstalling mysql-common, mysql-client, mysql-server.
First of all, go to "/var/run/mysqld". You will find that the mysql.sock does not exist. Simply remove the entire mysqld directory and recreate it and provide it necessary privileges.
# rm -rf /var/run/mysqld && mkdir /var/run/mysqld && chown mysql /var/run/mysqld/
Now, Kill the mysql process in it's entirety. It might be possible that it will show you "waiting for page cleaner" on running "/etc/init.d/mysql status" command even after shutting down the service.
To completely close the service, use
# pkill -9 mysqld
Once the process is killed, try starting it again using
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
And you will see that it works good! And also there will be no issue in stopping it too.
In My case two mysqld processes were running..
killed the optional processs by using
pkill -9 mysqld
If you have a lot of databases and tables on your system, and if you have innodb_file_per_table set in my.cnf, then your mysql server might have run out of opened objects / files (or rather the descriptors for these objects)
Set a new max number with
open-files-limit = 2048
and restart mysql.
This approach might help when the socket is not created at all, but really this might not not be the real problem, there is an underlying problem.
My solution;
Ubuntu 18.04 (WSL)
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
!includedir /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/
/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
[mysqld]
user = mysql
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
I changed the port. It's worked for me. You can write another port. Example 3355
I am using XAMPP on Ubuntu. I found this error when connecting database through terminal. I solve it without any configuration because default socket file path in XAMPP is written in "/opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf" as following:
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock
now you can connect just by giving this socket path parameter with mysql command on terminal like:
mysql -u root --socket /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock
and it's done without any configuration.
If you don't want to type socket path everytime, then go for changing default path in my.cnf by "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock". Provide permissions and restart mysql server.
Edit:
Recently I've installed Ubuntu 20.04 and trying to install MySQL server but my system were crashing and not working at all. So I've just completely removed MySQL and installed MariaDB. Its working like a charm without any problems.
Changing the host to 127.0.0.1 worked for me.
Edit the file in /etc/mysql/my.cnf and add the below mentioned line to the section: client
[client]
port = 3306
host = 127.0.0.1
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
After you are done with it. Execute the following command.
sudo service mysql start
I had similar problem on a CentOS VPS. If MySQL won't start or keeps crashing right after it starts, try these steps:
1) Find my.cnf file (mine was located in /etc/my.cnf) and add the line:
innodb_force_recovery = X
replacing X with a number from 1 to 6, starting from 1 and then incrementing if MySQL won't start. Setting to 4, 5 or 6 can delete your data so be carefull and read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html before.
2) Restart MySQL service. Only SELECT will run and that's normal at this point.
3) Dump all your databases/schemas with mysqldump one by one, do not compress the dumps because you'd have to uncompress them later anyway.
4) Move (or delete!) only the bd's directories inside /var/lib/mysql, preserving the individual files in the root.
5) Stop MySQL and then uncomment the line added in 1). Start MySQL.
6) Recover all bd's dumped in 3).
Good luck!
I uninstalled mysql in Ubuntu 16.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/172514/how-do-i-uninstall-mysql
I reinstalled mysql
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-16-04
This seemed to work.
First create dir /var/run/mysqld
with command:
mkdir -p /var/run/mysqld
then add rigths to the dir
chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld
after this try
mysql -u root
You must install mysql-server
apt install mysql-server
I have a Ubuntu 14.04. server with LAMP installed where an Owncloud is running. I tried to install paperwork which didn't work out but thats not the problem.
After restarting my server I tried to access my owncloud again but I am facing an internal server error. See following picture.
Owncloud error
I looked in the log /var/log/apache2/error.log and theres following phrase:
Lost connection to MySQL server during query' in ...
I tried to restart the mysql service but this error appears:
stop: Unknown instance:
start: Job failed to start
Then I tried to login to mysql with mysql -u root -p and follorwing error appears:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I've looked for the sockets on the machine with find / -type s and the socket was there: /run/mysqld/ .
I created a symbolic link and pasted it to /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Unfortnutely nothing worked. After restarting again I can't find the socket anymore the output of find / -type s is:
/dev/log
/run/php5-fpm.sock
/run/udev/control
find: `/proc/977/task/977/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/977/task/977/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/977/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/977/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
Update
I've reinstalled the server so problem is over :D
If you install lampp server, run mysql first
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp startmysql
Then make "mysqld" directory in /var/run
cd /var/run
sudo mkdir mysqld
Link your mysql from lampp to /var/run/mysqld
sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
run mysql -u root -p . hope may help you
If you install LAMPP server, run MySQL first
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp startmysql
Then make "mysqld" directory in /var/run
cd /var/run
sudo mkdir mysqld
Link your mysql from lampp to /var/run/mysqld
sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
run MySQL
mysql -u root -p .
If MySQL fails with «mysql» not found, install:
sudo apt install mysql-client-core-5.7
sudo apt install mariadb-client-core-10.1
There is any issues with the mysql services. Please try to restart mysql services and check the mysql error logs for more information
I installed (on Ubuntu 13) MYSQL using
sudo apt-get install mysql
But after running
mysql -u root -p
and entering the password it gives the error
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Please guide...
Problem:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
Solution:
sudo service mysql start
I solved it by stopping the apache server first and restarting the mysql server
sudo service apache2 stop
sudo service mysql stop
sudo service mysql start
sudo service apache2 start
Hope this can help you
(Env: docker ubuntu16.04 container):
i run this code each time restart mysql server, it work for me:
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql /var/run/mysqld
sudo service mysql start
Make sure that Mysql is installed, still able to reproduce the issue, Look for the file in sql/my.cnf file.
Verify that the Socket connection path in that file:
Location shown in the error is: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Actually location in my.conf file : /home/user/mysql/tmp/mysqld.sock
home/sql/bin >> mysql -u root -p --socket=/home/user/mysql/tmp/mysqld.sock
In some version's you may find 'mysql.sock' instead 'mysqld.sock'
I know it's too late, but I had same problem today.
It solved by removing current mysql and reinstalling mariadb.
It worked for me.
sudo apt install mariadb-server
Create one micro instance swap space in Ubuntu
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
I have removed the preinstalled MySQL from CentOS 6 using the command-
yum remove mysql mysql-*
Now, I want to install "MySQl-server-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.i386.rpm" in my system.
But it could not start on my system. Please tell me how to start the MySQL with user account as well as in root also.
I have done this:-
[rex#dhcppc0 MySQL]$
[rex#dhcppc0 MySQL]$ su -
Password:
[root#dhcppc0 ~]# cd /home/rex/Documents/Software/MySQL
[root#dhcppc0 MySQL]# rpm -i MySQL-server-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.i386.rpm
package MySQL-server-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.i386 is already installed
[root#dhcppc0 MySQL]# mysql -u
-bash: mysql: command not found
[root#dhcppc0 MySQL]# mysql -u mysql
-bash: mysql: command not found
[root#dhcppc0 MySQL]# mysql.server start
-bash: mysql.server: command not found
MySQL-server-xxxx is package that contains only MySQL Server. Executable file for server is "mysqld" - "d" letter is for a daemon).
File that you trying to execute (mysql) is MySQL client. There is no client application in server package.
Please install MySQL-client-xxxx package, where xxxx is a version.
Execute the initscript below as a root user:
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
If you try to access the database from local client, you need to install MySQL-client-5.5.28-1.linux2.6.i686.rpm package.
Then you can control the MySQL database.
$ /usr/bin/mysql -u mysql