Errors starting/restarting mysqld
Issue
- Ran
service mysqld status
and received:
MySQL is running but PID file could not be found[FAILED]'
- Ran
service mysql restart
and received:
'ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- MySQL
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