Same thing happens to me, 

i just use bin/safe_mysqld --user=root &
to start to server so that i can use mysql.
I don't know exactly why it happens though. 
Possibly permissions??

Colin

--- Mike Yrabedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What would cause this error to occur all of a
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> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server
> through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
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> Server: Mac OS X 10.1.3
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