Can't Connect To Local Mysql Server Through Socket '/Var/Run/Mysqld/Mysqld.sock
Can't Connect To Local Mysql Server Through Socket '/Var/Run/Mysqld/Mysqld.sock . This file is created when mysql server is started and removed when you stop the server. Now, we can start from scratch and install it. kali linux Can't connect to local MySQL server Unix & Linux Stack from unix.stackexchange.com Note that while mysql reads the info of the location of the socketfile from the my.cnf file, the mysql_secure_installation program seems to not do that correctly at times. To fix this error, you need to see if mysql server is. To prevent this issue from happening, set the mysql service to automatically start at boot: