I thought that might be the problem Andrew but, I dont see anythinh wrong with the my.cnf..... take a look: # # The MySQL database server configuration file. # # You can copy this to one of: # - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options, # - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options. # # One can use all long options that the program supports. # Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with # --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use. # # For explanations see # <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html</a> # This will be passed to all mysql clients # It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes # escpecially if they contain "#" chars... # Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location. [client] port            = 3306 socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock # Here is entries for some specific programs # The following values assume you have at least 32M ram # This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed. [mysqld_safe] socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock nice            = 0 [mysqld] # # * Basic Settings # 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 # # Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on # localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure. bind-address            = <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> # # * Fine Tuning # key_buffer              = 16M max_allowed_packet      = 16M thread_stack            = 128K thread_cache_size       = 8 #max_connections        = 100 #table_cache            = 64 #thread_concurrency     = 10 # # * Query Cache Configuration # query_cache_limit       = 1M query_cache_size        = 16M # # * Logging and Replication # # Both location gets rotated by the cronjob. # Be aware that this log type is a performance killer. #log            = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log # # Error logging goes to syslog. This is a Debian improvement :) # # Here you can see queries with especially long duration #log_slow_queries       = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log #long_query_time = 2 #log-queries-not-using-indexes # # The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication. # note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about #       other settings you may need to change. #server-id              = 1 #log_bin                        = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log expire_logs_days        = 10 max_binlog_size         = 100M #binlog_do_db           = include_database_name #binlog_ignore_db       = include_database_name # # * BerkeleyDB # # Using BerkeleyDB is now discouraged as its support will cease in 5.1.12. skip-bdb # # * InnoDB # # InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/. # Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many! # You might want to disable InnoDB to shrink the mysqld process by circa 100MB. #skip-innodb # # * Security Features # # Read the manual, too, if you want chroot! # chroot = /var/lib/mysql/ # # For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI "tinyca". # # ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem # ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem # ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem [mysqldump] quick quote-names max_allowed_packet      = 16M [mysql] #no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition [isamchk] key_buffer              = 16M # # * NDB Cluster # # See /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-*/README.Debian for more information. # # The following configuration is read by the NDB Data Nodes (ndbd processes) # not from the NDB Management Nodes (ndb_mgmd processes). # # [MYSQL_CLUSTER] # ndb-connectstring=<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> # # * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file! # !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/ <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Mathenge <<a href="mailto:mathenge@gmail.com">mathenge@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;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding you:) </div>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: <div class="Ih2E3d"> socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock </div>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="Ih2E3d"> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Antony Kipingor <<a href="mailto:kipingor@gmail.com">kipingor@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding > you:) </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> 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 </div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> -------------- 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">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> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... </div>URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/78c88692/attachment.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ke/attachments/20080326/78c88692/attachment.htm</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">-- Ubuntu-ke mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-ke@lists.ubuntu.com">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> </div></div></blockquote></div>