title: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket tmp/mysql.sock
body: <p>Having just tried to access some mysqladmin privileges within terminal (flush_hosts), I have noticed that the socket problem has resurfaced with the error </p>
  
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    <p>Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)*. </p>
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  <p>I have no servers running currently.</p>
  
  <p>How can this be solved?</p>