ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

在linux上安装完mysql，然后也正常启动了。但是修改root密码的时候报错了：

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

解决办法：

linux 中 /etc下面编辑  vim my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set=utf8
#添加这里
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql

#保持一致
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

先把启动的mysql服务都停止掉：ps -ef|grep mysql  查找出所有关于mysql的进程，都 kill 掉

[root@iZ2]# ps -ef|grep mysql
root      2277     1  0 19:11 pts/2    00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --
mysql     2446  2277  0 19:11 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --
root      2484  1227  0 19:22 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto mysql

结束进程
[root@iZ2]# kill -9 2277 2446

重启mysql： service mysql start