Naive User

pinnerite <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:56:05 +0000

Newsgroups	comp.databases.mysql
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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When I try to start MySQL from a Linux Mint 20.3 terminal, it returns this:

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

I cannot find any configuration file that points to that address.

How does MySQL know to look there?

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Mint 20.3, kernel 5.4.0-95-generic, Cinnamon 5.2.7
running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.