Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock’ on Ubuntu

Run below commands for mysqld.sock and mysqld.pid

sudo touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
sudo touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
sudo chmod -R 644 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Now please do mysql service restart

sudo service mysql restart

You can connect to mysql now

mysql -u root

or,

mysql -u root -p

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