Comment 8 for bug 1623440

Excuse me, but this issue is not 'expired' for me. I just came across it this morning. Furthermore, when you say this is a 'configuration' issue, you could be a little more helpful / specific than just pointing the the community forum - assuming you have some idea what the alleged configuration issue is.

2. I decided to sudo apt-get install mysql because nothing else I was trying with 5.6 was working. I had errors like:

error-2002-hy000-can-t-connect-to-local-mysql-server-through-socket-var-run-mysqld-mysqld-sock

Only to find out I had no var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock. In fact, I had no /var/run/mysqld !!!

I read about checking /etc/mysql/my.cnf. But the only uncommented line was

 !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/.

And all all conf.d/mysql.conf has in it is: [mysql]

By the way, I DID NOT configure any of this. This is how I got it from you.