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Hello,
I am trying to create databases using mysql on centOS 7, after typing the command mysql -u root, I got the following error:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2).
NB: One of the solutions I found after internet searches which did not work was to create the file /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and change the owner to mysql user, I got the error: user mysql does not exist.
systemctl status mariadb says mariadb is not running and systemctl start mariadb does not start it even though rpm -qa | grep mariadb shows that it is installed. Not sure why this is happening.
systemctl status mariadb says mariadb is not running and systemctl start mariadb does not start it even though rpm -qa | grep mariadb shows that it is installed. Not sure why this is happening.
"doesn't start it" - what does this look like? I.e. is there an error message?
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