Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) Fedora Linux

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I'm having the problem described in title.

I have tried the solutions given here: Unable to login to MYSQL getting error ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) and here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/cant-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socket-varlibmysqlmysql-sock-2/

Please help me. Im using fedora 18 and MySQL 5.1.

Thanks in advance!

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+1 for putting versions of SO and MySQL and made a research before posting answer – JGutierrezC

3 Answers

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What i can think right now if you've already tried the solutions in your link, is that SELinux (Fedora's) is blocking service.

try 

sudo setenforce 0

and then

sudo service mysqld start

let me know if it helped please

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Are you sure your mysqld is running correctly? If you stop the mysqld and restart it, are there any logs created stating that there's a problem starting up?

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Just to remind those who have downloaded mariadb and accounted the same problem: if you download mariadb, you have to download both client and server-if you just download client, same error would happen.