ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)

I'm getting this error `ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2) ` even though I have managed to start mysql via command line in ubuntu mysql stop/waiting mysql start/running, process 17691 However when attempting to access the site I get a database connection error as well as the above error when trying to access mysql via `mysql -u root -p` I checked my error logs and I saw this 131029 12:53:34 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be remo$ 131029 12:53:34 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 131029 12:53:34 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 131029 12:53:34 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 131029 12:53:34 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4 131029 12:53:34 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 26.0G 131029 12:53:36 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 131029 12:53:36 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 131029 12:53:38 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 131029 12:53:39 InnoDB: 5.5.34 started; log sequence number 5146431500 131029 12:53:39 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '0.0.0.0'; port: 3306 131029 12:53:39 [Note] - '0.0.0.0' resolves to '0.0.0.0'; 131029 12:53:39 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'. 131029 12:53:39 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 131029 12:53:39 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.34-0ubuntu0.12.04.1-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 (Ubuntu) It's the first time I see this error and I'm not sure how to solve this issue, please help me out a bit here. Thanks **UPDATE** Okay I tried glglgl's solution and after a restart, I get the following in the error log: 131029 13:17:36 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be remo$ 131029 13:17:36 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 131029 13:17:36 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 131029 13:17:36 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 131029 13:17:36 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3.4 131029 13:17:36 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 26.0G 131029 13:17:38 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 131029 13:17:38 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 131029 13:17:40 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 131029 13:17:41 InnoDB: 5.5.34 started; log sequence number 5146431500 131029 13:17:41 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '127.0.0.1'; port: 3306 131029 13:17:41 [Note] - '127.0.0.1' resolves to '127.0.0.1'; 131029 13:17:41 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '127.0.0.1'. 131029 13:17:41 [Note...