Your client is looking for the MySQL socket in /var/run/mysqld Check your my.cnf. In my installation, this file is in /etc/mysql Inside this file is a line that reads: socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Based on your installation this line may say something else. Something else you can do is search for the file my.cnf. You can use the following command to search for the file: find / -name "my.cnf" -print Let me know how many files are actually found. Depending (again) on your installation, your MySQL may be using a different my.cnf which is using a mysqld.sock that's in a different location. Hope that this makes sense. Andrew. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Antony Kipingor <<a href="mailto:kipingor@gmail.com" target="_blank">kipingor@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding you:) Hi all, I hope you have been well, I resently attempted to upgrade Mysql server. The server is now giving me issues, I believe the root of the problem is the my.cnf is a  different version than the server itself. When I attempt to login i.e. #mysql -u root -p etc I receive the following error message: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) Can anyone help me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/0f43de26/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/0f43de26/attachment.htm</a> -- Ubuntu-ke mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-ke@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-ke@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ke" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ke</a> </blockquote></div>